“When the baker's horse, Pickles, stopped outside my father's shop, I closed my eyes and my leg started aching. That's how I knew the old workhorse's leg was hurting too.”

“He was a workhorse. Fed off the drive, the goal, the raw, unfettered grinding toward what he wanted.”

“But his anguish was also tempered by long-simmering resentment over his subordinate role as Pearson's underpaid workhorse.”