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Updated: July 9, 2025
Warrigal's eyes were sharp enough without a glass, and he often used to tell us he seen things men, cattle, and horses that we couldn't make out a bit in the world. We amused ourselves for a while the best way we could by horse-breaking, shooting, and what not; but we began to get awful tired of it, and ready for anything, no matter what, that would make some sort of change.
He had ridden mountain horses all his life on the rugged western slopes of Haleakala. He was first in the horse-breaking; and when the others hung back, as a matter of course, he would go in to meet a wild bull in the cattle-pen. He had a reputation. But he had never ridden over the Nahiku Ditch. It was there he lost his reputation.
If any one would know the inner character of a fellow man, let him put him to horse-breaking, and he will soon know the best or the worst of him.
Fencing, dam-making, horse-breaking, stock-riding, from making hay to building a shed, all bushwork came easy enough to us, Jim in particular; he took a pleasure in it, and was never happier than when he'd had a real tearing day's work and was settling himself after his tea to a good steady smoke. A great smoker he'd come to be.
'He's giving me some hints about horse-breaking, said she quietly. 'Is he, by George? Well, I 'd like to see him follow you over that fallen timber in the back lawn. We'll have you out, Master Joe, and give you a field-day to-morrow, said the old man. 'I vote we do, cried Dick; 'unless, better still, we could persuade Miss Betty to bring the dogs over and give us a cub-hunt.
It took a hundred and fifty years of Brandenburg horse-breaking, sometimes with sharp manipulation and a potent curb-bit, to dispossess them of that notion, and make them go steadily in harness. Which also, however, was at last got done by the Hohenzollerns. In a year or two, there came to be question of the marrying of young Duke Albert Friedrich.
But Jack and the missus had found occupation of greater interest than horse-breaking, gossiping, or spring cleaning an occupation that was also affording Dan a certain amount of entertainment, for Jack was "wrestling with book-learning," which Dan gave us to understand was a very different thing from "education."
The sojourn in Rome was enlivened by an incident that created much interest among the natives. The Italians were somewhat skeptical as to the abilities of the cowboys to tame wild horses, believing the bronchos in the show were specially trained for their work, and that the horse-breaking was a mock exhibition.
It was pleasant to Marianne to turn her back on the scene of the horse-breaking and face her own world which she knew and loved. The ponies were coming out to be paraded for admiration and to loosen their muscles with a few stretching gallops. Each was ridden by his owner, each bore a range saddle.
As life faded and the drip of the rain grew dim in his ears it seemed to him that he was once more in the thick of the horse-breaking, with raw colts rearing and bucking under him, his stirrups tied together beneath, or charging madly about the breaking corral and driving the helping cowboys over the rails.
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