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• [...]pointed out that we cared nothing, absolutely nothing, for convention, and would go in quest of the gods “on Shanks′ pony,” Anqui utterly mistook our meaning and had a pony in waiting for us when the hour came for leaving! This we dismissed after attempting to make clear our meaning.
• After all, mos′ everybody had to walk because yuh doan only get to meet people but ‘shanks pony’ was the cheapes′ form of transportation.
• That was the end of the vehicle track: from then on it was shanks′s pony.
• Young Jim shook his head. ‘The nearest station′s about fifty miles from there. We′ll hail a lift if we′re lucky. Otherwise it′s shanks′s pony.’
• And the rhythm in my shoes keeps the blues all away / When you ride Shanks's Pony you don′t have to pay
• Then four more meetings around Manhattan travelling mostly by Shanks′s pony, before arriving back at JFK for their overnight standby flight.
• Apart from the Ravenglass steam railway and Shanks′ pony, there′s no public transport to Eskdale.
• At the bottom of the hill, Dean Stewart says, let′s get out of the automobiles and proceed as usual—by shanks′ pony.
• By shanks′ pony? Mrs. Landes says.
• Is that Shakespeare? Jenny asks.
• No, Dean Stewart says laughing, just an expression from the folk in Missoula.