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Updated: October 28, 2025
The isolation in which Gomata had lived during the seven months while he maintained the popular impression that he was not Gomata-Smerdis, but Smerdis the brother of Cambyses, had broken up the court; and the strong, manly character of Darius had checked the license of the nobles suddenly, as a horse-breaker brings up an unbroken colt by flinging the noose about his neck.
"Why, it took Morris, the ten-stone-six champion, a deal more trouble than that before he put Barton to sleep. You've done a fine performance, sir, and happen you'll do a finer, if you give yourself the chance." "I never heard of Ted Barton, beyond seeing the name on a medicine label," said the assistant. "Well, you may take it from me that he's a slaughterer," said the horse-breaker.
José Sanchez met him with a shout; the shock of their collision overbore the lighter man, and the two went down together, arms and legs intertwined. The horse-breaker fired his revolver blindly a deafening explosion inside those four walls but he was powerless against his antagonist's strength and ferocity.
Describe your father as a horse-breaker. He doctors sick horses, I dare say?" "Oh, yes, sir." "Very well, then. He is a veterinary surgeon, a farrier and horse-breaker. Give me your definition of a horse." "Girl number twenty unable to define a horse!" said Mr. Gradgrind, for the general behoof of all the little pitchers.
"He was a good man," the horse-breaker asserted. "If he is dead " The Mexican's frown deepened to a scowl. "What then?" José significantly patted the gift revolver at his hip. "This little fellow will have something to say." Dave looked him over idly, from head to heel, then murmured: "You would do well to go slow, compadre. Panfilo made his own quarrels."
"But first, wait!" exclaimed the horse-breaker. "I bring you something of value, too." Desiring to render favor for favor, and to show that he was fully deserving of the general's generosity, José removed from inside the sweatband of his hat a sealed, stamped letter, which he handed to his employer.
Meanwhile, Gordon appears to have made no attempt to win any of the prizes that were the common reward of pluck and industry in the Australia of the fifties. He joined the mounted police force of South Australia, but, impatient of its discipline, soon left it, and for long afterwards was content with the rough employment of a horse-breaker. A curious, pathetic figure he makes at this time.
"But suppose you was trained?" said the publican. "Wot then?" "I am always in training." "In a manner of speakin', no doubt, he is always in trainin'," remarked the horse-breaker. "But trainin' for everyday work ain't the same as trainin' with a trainer; and I dare bet, with all respec' to your opinion, Mr. Wilson, that there's half a stone of tallow on him at this minute."
In another hour you would have been across the Rio Grande with Rosa and all her fine clothes, eh? Now you will be hanged. Well, that is how fortune goes." The horse-breaker tossed his head and shrugged with a brave assumption of indifference; he laughed shortly. "You can prove nothing." "Yes," continued Dave, "and Rosa will go to prison, too. Now suppose I should let you go? Would you help me?
'I bought 'im out of the yard at Breeza Downs that's Windeatt's run about sixty miles from Moongarr, and I will say that though it's a sheep-run they've beat us in the breed of their 'osses.... Got 'im cheap because he'd bucked young Windeatt off and nearly kicked his brains out, and there wasn't a man along the Leura that he'd let stop on his back except me and Zack Duppo the horse-breaker who first put the tackling on 'im.
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