"You ride like an Indian,"
ugg boots discount outlet said Densmore to him after the scratch game, "and you've got no nerves. But I don't see where you got your wrist, except by practice."
"I've had the practice, some time since."
"But if you've only knocked about the field with stable-boys--"
"That's the only play I've ever had. But when I was riding range in the desert, I picked up an old stick and
cheap uggs online a ball of the owner's, and I've chased that ball over more miles of sand and rubble than you'd care to walk. Cactus plants make very fair goal posts, too; but the sand is tricky going for the ball."
Densmore whistled. "That explains it. Maitland says you'll make the club team in two years. Let us get together
uggs discount and fix you up some ponies," invited Densmore.
Banneker shook his head, but wistfully.
"Until you're making enough to carry your own."
"That might be ten years, in the newspaper business. Or never.
"Then get out of it. Let Old Man Masters find you something in the Street. You could get away with it," persuaded Densmore. "And he'll do anything for
discount uggs for women a polo-man."
"No, thank you. No paid-athlete job for mine. I'd rather stay a reporter."
"Come into the club, anyway. You can afford that. And at least you can take a mount on your day off."
"I'm thinking of another job where I'll have more time to myself than one day a week," confessed Banneker, having in mind possible magazine
discount uggs for women work. He thought of the pleasant remoteness of The Retreat. It was expensive; it would involve frequent taxi charges. But, as ever, Banneker had an unreasoning faith in a financial providence of supply. "Yes: I'll come in," he said. "That is, if I can get in."
"You'll get in, with Poultney Masters for a backer. Otherwise, I'll tell
discount ugg boots you frankly, I think your business would keep you out, in spite of your polo."
"Densmore, there's something I've been wanting to put up to you."
Densmore's heavy brows came to attention. "Fire ahead."
"You were ready to beat me up when I came here to ask you certain questions."