The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-06-19
HORSEMANSHIP.

When Chinsman does most any,
thing In his own peculiar Oriental
style, 1t Is pretty apt to attract atten-
ton; but when be gets on q buckino
bronco with the cheerful assurance Of
man who understands his business.
AND Gas been conveTssut with the
ways OF the bronco for over two thous
and years, the great surging mass of
humanity ceases tosurge, aud stands
with bated breath and watches the ex
hloitlon with unaagging interest.
A Chlnsmsn does not grab the bit
OF the bronco and yank it around I'm.
til the noble steed can see thirteen
new snd peculiar kinds of fireworks;
or kick him in the stomach and
knock his ribs loose, or swear at him
until tbs armament gets loose and be
gins to roll together like scroll, but
he does his hair up 10 an Oriental
wad behind and jsbs big hair-pin
| into 1t and smiles, and says something
ike what a Guinea hen would say il
she got excited and tried to report
one of Bioernsjerne Bjoerpson's
poems skywards in his native
tongue.
Then he gets on the wrong side and
slides into the saddle, making a re-
mark as though something inside of
him had broken loose, and the grand
difficulty begins.
At first the bronco seemed surprised
and temporarily ratified Intellectually
and be stands idly in the glad sun.
light and allows bis mental equili-
brium to wsbble back into the place
while the ChiDaman makes some OBJ
servatiOns that sound like the distinct
melody OF a Hancock club going
home at 2 O'Clock in the morning,
and all talking at one and the same
time.
By and by the bronco shoots ath.
wart the sunny sky like q thing Of
life, and comes down with all his legs
in cluster ike a bunch OF aspara-
gus, and with great deal of force
and expression.
This movement throws the China
mans liver into the northwest corner
OF the thorax and his upper left hand
deuodessimo into the middle of the
subsequent week, but be does not
complain. He opens his mouth and
breatbes in all the atmosphere thst
the rest OF the universe can spare,
and readjasting his shirt tail so that
it will have the correct inclination
toward the horizon, be gently tickles
the bronco on the stsrbOard quarter
with the cork sole OF his corpulent
shoe. This miEth- provoking move
ment throws the bronco into the
widest Mysteries. and for twenty
minutes the spectators don't see any
thing very distinctly. Tue autumn
sunlight seems to be mixed up with
the blonde bronco, and the sCftened
haze OF October seems fraught with
pale blue shirt tail aud disturbed
Cinnamon, moving in an Irregular
orbit, and occasionally throwing of
meteouo articles OF apparel and his
prehistoric chunks of igueous pro-
family of the vintage of Confucius.
marked BIC. 1860.
When the sky clears up little the
Chinsman's hair has come down, and
hargs 10 wild profuSion about his
olive features. The hem of his shirt
flap is seen to be very much frayed,
like an American flag that has
snapped III the breeze for thirteen
weeks. He finds also that he mas
telescOped his spinal column and
damned two ribs through his right
superior duplex. and be bas two OF
three vertebr@ floating about through
his system that DE dldn't know what
to do with. The casual observer can
see that the Chinaman ls robust
ruin, while the bronco is still in
good state of preservation
But the closing scene is still to
come. The bronco summons all his
latent energy, and humping his back
I'D into the exhusrating atmosphere,
be shoots forward with great earnest
ness and the most reckless Rbandon,
and when be once more bisects the
earth's orbit and jabs his feet into
the trembling earth, shspeless mas
of brocsde1 elk and coarse black
hair, and taper nails, and Celestial
shlrs-tail, aud Oolong profanity and
disorganizsd Chinese remains. and
shattered Orisntal shirt-destroyer.
comes down apparently from the
New Jerusalem, and the coroner goes
out on the street tn get six good men
aud u chemist, and they anslyze the
collection.
They report that the deceased csme
to his death by reason Of conclusion,
supposed to have been induced by ME
fall from the outer battlements of the
aWpet hive and hive