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There's no medals struck fer neddies, but we    rule there orter be, 'N' the pride iv all the Light Horse is old    Marshal Neigh, V.C.

From 'Hello, Soldier!' Khaki Verse by Dyson, Edward

In time he recovered from his loss and replaced his dead neddies with others, and continued for many years longer on his rounds.

From A Shepherd's Life Impressions of the South Wiltshire Downs by Hudson, W. H. (William Henry)

"They'm laughing at us, keper, they neddies; sure enough, we'm lost our labor here."

From Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth by Kingsley, Charles

But it is only these ancients who knew him that keep it green; by and by when they are gone Old Joe and his neddies will be remembered no more.

From A Shepherd's Life Impressions of the South Wiltshire Downs by Hudson, W. H. (William Henry)

He appeared periodically in the villages with his eight donkeys, or neddies as he called them, with jingling bells on their headstalls and their burdens of two sacks of small coal on each.

From A Shepherd's Life Impressions of the South Wiltshire Downs by Hudson, W. H. (William Henry)