(Call of The Wild written by Jack London)
2006-10-01 15:02:48 · 3 answers · asked by almostfreebird 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
The sentence is written kind of phonetically, to sound like it would if you heard the character speaking with an accent. 'Druther' is shortened and is 'I'd rather'. To 'break' a horse means to take a wild and untrained one and ride it till it gets used to being ridden and becomes calm enough to feel comfortable with a rider on it. It takes a few hours on top of a struggling horse till it calms down, so usually one in a day would be tiring enough. Not really supposed to do stuff like that on Sunday, so he is being a bit rebellious himself here, maybe a little bit like that unbroken horse.
2006-10-01 15:32:14 · answer #1 · answered by mary_n_the_lamb 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I looked up cayuse and it seems to mean indian pony so I guess it would be,
'I'd rather break wild horses any day, and twice on Sunday.'
Does that help?
2006-10-01 15:12:29 · answer #2 · answered by theoriginalquestmaker 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would rather rough-train wild horses than anything else, and even more on Sunday.
2006-10-01 15:12:23 · answer #3 · answered by Mmerobin 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋