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A moment, and his leg had swung across the rump of the pony and he had settled to the animal's back. So close was it that a running Cree snatched at the bronco's tail and was jerked from his feet before he could release his hold. As the cow-pony went plunging up the slope, Morse saw Brad Stearns silhouetted against the sky-line at the summit.
"We ought surely to have the time of our lives," said the shipowner's son. "Just think of riding like the wind on some of those broncos!" "Or getting flung heels over head from a bronco's back," added Roger. "I rather think we'll have to be careful at first." "One thing I don't like about this trip," said Dave. "The fact that Link Merwell's father owns the next ranch to the Star?" "Exactly."
The night was black dark under the redwoods, so impenetrable that he could not see his horse's head, and braced even as he was for greater perils it required all his courage to ride top-speed at this vast slab of black that like a wall he seemed to charge head down with every leap of his bronco's hoofs.
So he straddled a horse and called on Dan, who shook the dust of Huerfano Park from his bronco's hoofs poco tiempo." "Where has he gone?" asked Roy. "Nobody knows, and he won't tell. But, knowing Meldrum as we do, Rutherford and I have come to a coincidentical opinion, as you might say. He's a bad actor, that bird.
Then suddenly he would leap right up into the air, "swap ends," so the cowboys said, and come down facing the opposite way Then he might rear up and fall backwards, or throw himself down and roll over, but the rider was always on the bronco's back before he could get going again.
Bronco-busters only last a few years, the hard jarring affects their lungs and other organs so disastrously. One of our men, with the kindest consideration, much appreciated, confidentially showed me a simple method of tying up a bronco's head with a piece of thin rope, adjusted in a particular way, which made pitching or bucking almost, but not always, an impossibility.
"In spite of Enright's faith it shore turns out this Mexican is ornery enough, where the trail skirts the river, to wheel sudden an' go plungin' across. But Jack gets him in midstream. As he goes over the bronco's shoulder, hat first, he swings on the bridle long enough with his dyin' hand to turn the pony so it comes out ag'in on our side.
The guide sought to draw her away, fearful that the pony might spring to one side and let loose a volley of kicks. Grace shook her head, her left hand grasped the mane of the pony and she pulled herself to his head. Fumbling in her pocket, she drew forth a piece of candy and felt rather than, saw the bronco's lips close over the sweet morsel.
"He's going to buck," warned the steady voice of Hi Lang. Grace knew it in advance of the guide's warning, but, though she tugged with all her might, she was not strong enough to get the black bronco's head up so he could not carry out his intention. There followed a series of bucks and squeals, accompanied with flying hoofs, that sent the spectators fleeing for safety.
"BAH! I guess not," said the Kid, suddenly, with an inflection that startled the other from his preening. Then, as he went out, the man mused: "Gee! Bronco's got the worst eye in the camp! Makes me creep when he throws it on me with that muddy look. He acted like he was jealous." At noon the next day, as he prepared to go to the claim, Dextry's partner burst in upon him.
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