51�Թ�

Lucky for Booth, instead of turning into the thicket, the troops remained on the road, passed the thicket, and rode until the sound of hoofbeats vanished in the distance.

It mutes hoofbeats and limits whatever kickback might fly in the faces of trailing horses.

We were too far away to hear their hoofbeats, but as they surged down the track, I thought I could feel the resounding force resonating through my bones.

For example, in the rhyme “Banbury Cross,” the patsching eighth notes in measures 3 and 4 could be mimicking the hoofbeats of the horse.

And you know the expression to encourage doctors to consider common explanations first — “When you hear hoofbeats, think horses not zebras”? Well, I suspect every single family is a herd of zebras.