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And then the lariat snapped in two! Muddied and scratched, the buckskin scrambled to his feet, his eyes blazing, nostrils distended, and as wild a horse as ever came off the range. "Look out, Miss Frances!" yelled Mack Hinkman, who had just come upon the scene. "That thar buckskin hawse is a bad actor." "Oh! the dear girl! Whatever did possess me to urge her on?" cried Mrs. Edwards. "Boys!
Leaning over their ponies' necks and rising in the saddles to lighten their weight as much as possible, the two elder boys set out to overtake their brothers. With spur and lariat end they belabored their mounts and gamely the horses responded. Leap by leap they cut down the lead, were soon abreast of the others and then forged ahead, shouting in triumph as they opened clear ground between them.
"Jack Moore drops the loop of his lariat over the off moccasin of the deceased Mexican, an' canters his pony down the draw with him, so's we ain't offended none by the vision of him spraddled out that a-way dead. This yere's thoughtful of Jack, an' shows he's nacherally refined an' objects to remainders lyin' 'round loose.
I guess that animal could eat a lariat rope, all right, and enjoy it." "I guess if we knew the things those two have eaten, and haven't eaten, in their time, T. B., it would make us vegetarians." The doctor sat down and looked thoughtful. "That's the way for the old man to go. It would be pretty hard luck if he had to die in a hospital. I wish he could turn up something before he cashes in.
He had more than one enemy to contend with, and the first intimation he had of the fact, was a sound that Archie had heard so often since his residence in California that it had become familiar to him the whistling noise made by a lariat in its passage through the air.
"It's like a kid. Give him a new toy and he wants to take it to bed with him. Ever notice?" "Surely." "That's the way with me. When I go to bed nothin' matters with me except that I have my lariat around. I generally like to have it hangin' on a nail at the head of my bunk. The fellers always laugh at me, but I can't help it; makes me feel more at home."
Noiselessly turning, he led Gregg, wondering, back to the glade in which the other horses were tethered, and quickly drove his picket pin and put him on the half lariat. But how was he to conceal the severed side line?
By some peculiar irony the lock worked all right for him now, but a quick look told him there were no more cartridges in the magazine. He dropped the rifle and looked wildly around for a another weapon. He saw a lariat hanging from a peg on the kitchen wall. It was Sanderson's rope Owen knew it. Sanderson had oiled it, and had hung it from the peg to dry. Owen whined with joy when he saw it.
As has been stated, the belt of timber was not far away, the nearest tree being less than fifty feet from where he remained stuck. Preparing the lariat, he threw the noose up and away from him. It circled through the air and fell over the nearest branch of the tree.
The latter had had no time to gather in his own lariat, but he began shortening it up intending to swing it from where it lay on the ground. His opponent gave him no time for this. Tad made a quick cast. The cowboy threw himself to one side, but the loop of the lariat that had been thrown true reached his broad sombrero, neatly snipping it from his head. The spectators uttered a yell of approval.
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