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He sunk his head and redoubled his efforts, as with quirt in one hand and hackamore in the other the cowboy lashed his shoulders while his spurs raked the animal to a bloody foam. Slower and slower the outlaw fought, pausing now and then to scream shrilly as with bared teeth and blazing eyes he turned this way and that, sucking the air in great blasts through his blood-dripping nostrils.
The sounds ceased when the sun was an hour high and when she looked out to determine the reason she saw him working with four colts in one of the smaller corrals. He had fashioned a hackamore for each and they stood tied to the corral bars. He left them there and repaired to the big gates of the main corral.
'Filed on your claim yet? he demanded. 'Yes, retorted Longstreet, feeling inexplicably ill at ease and shifting in his chair. 'Immediately. 'That's good, grunted Lee. 'But I would be squatting on my diggings with a shot-gun under my arm. Al, here, can tell you a few things about Monte Devine and his crowd. 'Next to Lee, said Howard, 'Devine knows the mining game from hackamore to hoof.
The Texan rode with one hand gripping the hackamore rope and the other his quirt which stung and bit into the frenzied animal's shoulders each time he hit the ground. In a perfect storm of fury the horse plunged, twisted, sunfished, and bucked to free himself of the rider who swayed easily in the saddle and raked him flank and sides with his huge rowelled spurs. "Stay a long time!"
"I'm going home," she said with decision. "Don't for a minute yet, Nan," he pleaded. "Think how long it will be before I can ever see you again!" "You may never see anybody again if you don't realize your danger to-night. Can you ride with a hackamore?" "Like a dream." "I didn't dare bring anything else." "You haven't told me," he persisted, "how you got away at all."
"Water!" she cried, wiping his face with her handkerchief. Boot-heels gritted on the parched earth and spurs jingled as the men came running. The pony, with hackamore dangling, raced across the plain toward the hills. "This'll do jest as well," said Williams, pouring a mouthful of whiskey between Collie's lips. Then the taciturn foreman lifted the youth to his feet.
Another thicker and softer rope was knotted so that it could not slip about the now sweating neck, and fashioned into a hackamore or halter about the animal's nose. Then the riata was loosed. Working deftly, silently, gently ever wary of those dangerous hoofs Phil next placed blanket and saddle on the trembling black and drew the cinch tight.
Between his bunting on one side and me milking on the other, the cow kicked the pail over." "Quirl you a brownie and blow it threw your hackamore and forgit it," said Pinkey, soothingly, as he handed him a book of cigarette papers, with a sack of tobacco and made room for him on the door-sill. "I ain't used to cow milk anyhow; air-tight is better."
When Surry gave over rolling with his tongue the little wheel in his bit, and with lifted head and eyes alert perked his ears forward towards the hill they had just crossed, he slipped the hackamore hurriedly into place and turned to his friend. "You climb on to Surry, and we'll pull out," he said shortly.
One fore foot was strapped up, a hackamore or bitless bridle was adjusted in place, and he was allowed to arise. After this, all depended on the patience and firmness of the handler. Some horses yielded to kind advances and accepted the saddle within half an hour, not even offering to pitch, while others repelled every kindness and fought for hours.
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