Sentence:  I walked slowly, and with an assumed air of careless indifference. I counterfeited the Comanche walk—not that bold free port—the magnificent and inimitable stride, so characteristic of Chippewa and Shawano, of Huron and Iroquois—but the shuffling <WSD>gingery</WSD> step of an English jockey; for such in reality is the gait of the Comanche Indian when afoot. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Ginger, inhibited, cautious.