He ate up the hay-rack and two sets of harness.

And one night he broke out and nibbled off all the door-knobs on the back of the house." "Door-knobs, Emma?
Has he shown a fondness for door-knobs ?" "Yes; and he ate Louisa's hymn-book, too.

She left it lying on the table on the porch.

Patrick said he knew a man in Ireland whose horse would starve to death unless they fed him on Bibles.

If he couldn't get Bibles, he'd take Testaments; but unless he got Scriptures of some kind, he was utterly intractable." "I would like to have had a look at that horse, sweet." "So we got the horse-doctor again, and he said that what the poor animal wanted was a hypodermic injection of morphia to calm his nerves.