Showing posts with label Gaelic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gaelic. Show all posts

Friday, 27 April 2012

In my seventieth year



Racing’s well enough when you’re young and riding yourself, but now that I was in my seventieth year and disinclined to back anything more mettlesome than an armchair,* I found it quite as interesting as a sermon in Gaelic.

* a docile horse


Flashman and the Tiger, p.222, Harper Collins, paperback edition 2000.


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