Explain the following sentences in your own words, bringing out any implied meanings.

1. My father would bring the team down Fifth Avenue at a smart trot, flicking his whip over the horses rumps and making the bells double their light, thin jangling over the snow, whose radiance threw back a brilliance like the sound of bells.

Answer: My father drove the horses to move quickly down the roads, hitting their hind part with a light, quick blow with his whip. The bells rang even more lightly and quickly over the snow, which in turn threw back a great brightness that was like the sound of bells.

2. It always troubled me as a boy of eight that the horses had so indifferent a view of their late friend appearing as a warm overcoat on the back of the man who put the iron bit in their mouths.

Answer: I was puzzled as an eight-year-old boy over the horses’ indifference towards their dead friend, whose hide had now turned into my father's overcoat. It was hard for me to understand why the horses seemed to show no care to that overcoat which came from their recently died friend and the man who put a metal bar in their mouths to control them, wearing it.

3. There would be an occasional brass-mounted automobile laboring on its narrow tires and as often as not pulled up the slippery hills by a horse, and we would pass it with a triumphant shout for an awkward nuisance which was obviously not here to stay.

Answer: Occasionally on our way, we would meet a car moving slowly and carefully over the packed snow. It had difficulty climbing up hills, which were slippery with the show, so it was often pulled up by horse. When we passed by quickly on our sleigh, we would shout loudly with a sense of triumph towards them, which were obviously clumsy and out of place, making trouble on the road.

4. ...the body heat of many animals weighing a thousand pounds and more, pigs in one corner making their dark, brown-sounding grunts...

Answer: ...The smell of quite a number of big and strong animals was very strong. At the same time, since the barn was filled with animals, it was also warm Pigs were uttering deep, gloomy, and sonorous sounds...

5. It gave him a better appetite, he argued, than plain fresh air, which was thin and had no body to it.

Answer: With so much content and life in it, the rich odor of the barn appealed to my father much better than the freshest air, which, according to him, was weak and lacked substance.