Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1886-02-13

The Severe but Salutary Lessons elves
~ Cowboys to UnhrOken Colts.

From the San Francisco Chronicle
While the boss goes on assigning the horses
Tex coils up his RATA, rope of plated raw
hide as large as your finger and from fifty to
eighty feet long. On the end of this is worked
q "hondoo," or small ring of rawhide, through
which the rope Is doubled, and he pulls enough
slack through 1t to make q loop fifteen or
twenty feet in circumference. Holding the
coil In his left hand he grasps the rope just
outside the loop and holds it in This right
hand, doubled back on the loop. Then he
throws the loop out behind him and shouts to
the colt, who makes q dash along the side Of
the corral As he passes Tex throws the loop
overland and jerks it taut as it falls over the
pOny's head.The frightened colt runs to the end
cnouches on the ground, with his weight thrown
back on the rope. The pony changes ends with
Tex runs up to him. This gives him slack and and
starts him again, and after the performance has
been gone through dozen times the pony has
step toward his education is accomplished.
He is then named. This is subject for debate,
and Tex hnaliy decides on "Streaks' as appro-
pirate to paint or piebald horse. Streaks is
led out of the corral, and while one of the other
boys holds the rope, Tex takes another rope.
feet and throws him. This second rope is passed
to another man, who holds 1t 80 that the pony
Blanket and saddle are cinched on. and the
''hackamore," a sort Of halter with a nose-piece
that will draw tightly when pulled, is put on.
To this is added horsehair rope, called ma
carte, and after a handkerchief has been nut
over the pOny's eyes the other ropes are loosed
Streaks plunges TO his feet and runs on the ma
carte. This he finds even more Improbable
than running on the RATA, for the nose-piece
brings him up all standing. When he is Quiet
enough to approach, Tex ties the macarte so as
to make reins, and throws himself into the sad
die. Streaks looks as if he meant mischief and
the bystanders climb up on the corral to be out
OF harms way. Sometimes a mounted man is
nhn nd IT.
from running through a wire fence or smashing
into wagon. Tex reaches over and raises the
blind, and then the fun begins. Streaks stands
plunge in the air and lands on his stiffeped tore
legs, with his nose almost on the ground. Tex
has balanced himself and returns the compl-
succession of plunges, changing ends at every
jump and striking the ground like street
PAYERS ram mer. He is evidently a "plumb SON
harder for the rider than If he pitched straight
ahead.
IT, The boys shout encoursgingly: .sit him deep,
light on" mind that prairie-dog town" Tex
plies spur and cuerdo shouting "I-i-c-a-a," a
"broncho busters" streaks finds that backing
Is no use, and he suddenly rears and falls over
backward, driving the horn of the saddle into
sight of Texs lifeless body, but Tex is standing
by his head with the coil of the ndcarte which
mad been caught under his belt, fast in his left
hand. When Streaks finds his feet again Tex
is on his back, and the pony makes q bolt of
It, mile or two tells on him nd Tex manages
10 jerk his head around SO that he heads for
that he is comparatively submissive he is a
"broke horse" He will be harder to ride the
second time when he is bitted than the first
put by the time he has been mounted half
dozen times he will be quite tractable. Then
he has to be taught to "savvy cows" and must
learn to dodge, stop and whirl around like a