orange pekoe coal

noun, a type of coal burned as fuel

“Here’s the horse. All you can see is his head and its nose out of the water, not much of the head, and the sleigh … I was trying to get down in there in that ice water. The horse was blowing blood just sky high every time it breathed. Just phew, you know it’s dying, eh. That particular case we never thought we were going to get it out. He had probably half a ton of coal on him. That was quite a bit, then, hard pekoe. Orange pekoe coal, that was the name of it.”
“Was it really? Orange pekoe coal?”
“Yeah it was hard coal. That was the good stuff. It’d burn all night for you. Yeah, and by god we saved that horse.”