#. Eshley stood very near the gate while he studied the animal's appearance and demeanour. Adela Pingsford continued to say nothing.
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Eshley stood very near the gate while he studied the animal's appearance and demeanour. Adela Pingsford continued to say nothing. ... Eshley took a step or two in the direction of the animal, clapped his hands, and made noises of the "Hish" and "Shoo" variety. If the ox heard them it gave no outward indication of the fact.
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This line is taken from the short story "The Stalked Ox".
Adela was Eshley’s closest neighbor. The lady had no remarkable love for art or animals but she could die for plants and flowers. One fine afternoon in late autumn she knocked on the outer door of Ashley's studio because a stray ox ad wandered into her garden and she didn’t dare to get a huge beast out all alone. Her garden had just been put straight for the winter, and she could not even imagine an ox roaming about in it. Apart from this, she had some finest chrysanthemums just coming into flower. Besides, she was practically all alone; the housemaid was having her afternoon out and the cook was lying down with an attack of neuralgia.