It isn't easy to explain why Danny Blancheflower, the Mickey Mantle of English soccer 15 years ago, says, "Your country is a great frontier town and you have great big attitudes toward things

An impulse urged him to plant a sudden blow on it, by he forced himself to consider the impolicy of such an act.

She worked each horse at a walk, trot, and then a canter. The horses reined well and executed stops quickly.

Down over the headland, they came on a rock-strewn space of beach, and from that to the open sand-bar, still glistening from the outflowing tide, that blocked the sea's entrance to the lagoon.