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Updated: June 7, 2025
The chase, with our boat playing the part of hare, was exciting enough before, but it grew far more so now, for the men in the other boat were evidently determined, and two of them stood up with clumsy-looking hooks, and another with a coil of rope ready to lasso us, as it seemed to me.
Pulling the right stirrup out from under the horse Pan drew the cinch a couple of holes tighter, and then straddled him. "Let him up, Blink." "All right, pard. Tell us where you want to be buried," replied Blinky, loosing the lasso and jumping free. With a blast of rage Dunny got up. But he cunningly got up with his back first, head down between his legs, and stiff as a poker.
"If we had brought a lasso with us." "Well, if we had," said Joses, "and could fasten it round him, I don't believe we could haul him off, for he'd only cling all the tighter, and perhaps drag us over the side." "What is to be done then?" said Bart. "Here, Sam, make an effort, my lad. Creep back; it's as easy as can be. Don't be afraid. Here, I will come to you."
But they who spend their time in trying to lasso and decapitate a lie will come back worsted, as did the English cockneys from a fox chase described in the poem entitled "Pills to Purge Melancholy:"
As the huntsman gets close to it he throws his lasso over its neck; or if he is using the bolas, he casts them so as to entangle the bird's-legs, and thus bring it to the ground. The rhea is easily tamed, and is constantly seen about the huts of the Patagonians.
"No kill cougar," continued Jones, as the Indian's bold features hardened. "Run cougar horseback run long way dogs chase cougar long time chase cougar up tree! Me big chief me climb tree climb high up lasso cougar rope cougar tie cougar all tight." The Navajo's solemn face relaxed "White man heap fun. No." "Yes," cried Jones, extending his great arms.
They are taken with the lasso, concerning which instrument or weapon I will here say a word or two, notwithstanding that it has been often described. The lasso is usually from twenty to thirty feet long, very flexible, and composed of strips of twisted ox hide.
In the corral he selected a horse which heretofore he had carefully left alone, knowing the brute's half-tamed spirit and not caring to trust to it. But now it was different. He waited his opportunity before throwing his rope. Then, as the horse, seeming to know that he had been singled out, shot by him, he cast his lasso.
The jaguar, instantly taking advantage of the oversight, burst from its cover and sprang first on to the haunches of the horse, then seizing the hunter by his poncho dragged him to the earth, and would no doubt have quickly despatched him if a lasso, thrown by one of the other men, had not closed round its neck at this critical moment. It was quickly dragged off, and eventually killed.
For it was really round that loose end that the foe would probably fling the lasso of his charge; it was here that death might soon be present upon every side.
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