The Bad Lands cow boy. [volume] (Little Missouri, Dakota [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-1886, 1886-02-11

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How do you break bron chos ~ aske
reporter Of q wei known horssnlai
Fhy, sometimes ne nseS an 4 axe and
sometimes stone e4crusher, Z. replied the
horseman, who WAS real funny; WhaI kes
felt good natursd
No, but serionaIy how il The; work of
getting q broncfiO into the state of beSs
ing. whereby Be becomes like an every
day gentle horse acconapl plished r. asked
tile Teporte who was ssaIcling for In
formation on an ttant slibieet.y
rather than for gems off "a riean luS
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thorough gllbred bull pup, svllen 80 come
to that, 9 broncho never becomes like a.
well behaved horse until hssisready tosf
drop into his grave or the hands Of the
rendering works people.
I hen a broncho gets SO that he be-
hayes himself decently all the time, iffg
Jou own him, you had better sell him,
for you can bet your life he has his will
made and is going to croak soon. As
broncho is only pony, q kind Of small
horse and so we try to break him in the
same way we use in breaking colt. But
the difference between the two animals
is that colt will always be wild and !
more OF less mischieYous at first, while g..
broncho is always vicious and full Of
deviltry that can never be taken out Of
him. {S;s;
"All bronchos," continued the horse
man in meditative tone, as he slowly
scratched the bnll pups head with the
end Of a, whip-stock, @stand toward the
common horses very much as the Devil
does toward mankind. Ike z5ss5s
"You know that all men and women
Iand kids have more or less wickedness in I
'em, but Old Nick is just chock full Of
lcussedness. Once In while Baelzebub
may pretend to show little bit Of good
ness, but it's just for blind. He's al
ways got some scheme in 1t. And that's
just the way with the bronchos.'' Il K
"a mule is an angel Of light alongside.
a broncho, chimed in hostler, who had
been listening to the conversation.
"That's so," agreed the horssman. Il
used to own pair of the handsomest
mules that ever set foot in Colorado, and
they were pretty well behaved for mules
too. Well, I've known one OF those
mules, when was driving 'em double,
to kick out and hit q dog in the road
twelve feet behind him and never lose
step with his mate. you want to buy
ia broncho, Mister 2'' s ,sss
I The visitor jingled two Lonesome nick4
els in his pocket and modestly replied In
the negative. .s ss5 5.sj 4 as S
Because if you did," the horseman
continued, "I'ye got the only broncho in
this stable that ever really was broken
and he's pretty little beast too. Buff
you only want to know for the curiosity
Of it, I'll tell you how we break them. 5 os5
"The first thing is to catch one. You
know they run wild like other colts ms
til we get ready to try and use 'em. Un-
less you use lariat, you'll. find that
catching broncho in the field or even
in corrall, is no spiritualist's picnic.
When you've got him you must mount
him and that amt no coming home from
the picnic by moonlight, neither.
HE will dance and kick and kick and
dance like all possessed. If you are
patient he will stop still enough for you
to get near enough to get on, after a lit
tie while, say about an hour. Of course
he's got no idea what you want to d., for
nobody ever tried that on him before"
$50 as soon as you make jump he'll
jump sideways about eight or ten feet,
and if you've got him by a halter or i
lariat he'll jerk you about twenty feet
unless you let go. If you do Let go you'll
not catch him again for about a week
unless you've been doing all this in a
brick building. If its any other kind Of
a building he'll kick the side Of it out
and get away" T.
Suppose that you get on him finally,
you won't need bride the first time;
just grab him by the hair and lay down.
If you can, get your feet locked under
meath him at the same time. If you
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were nailed onto him. he'd get you off in
a few minutes anyway, but you have to-.
give him as much Of tussle as you
cam y. $;IS
"The FIRST thing he'll do is to run like
lightning, and shake himself from side
to side. A part Of the time he'll run
sideways, and part backwards, and
now and then he'll go a little ways
straight ahead. If you keep on all this
time he'll stop suddenly when he's going
full tilt, with all four legs stiff as iron
bars. If that don't throw you off his
back, it'll jerk your entrails into your,
t'month. I've seen a man thrown twenty
or thirty feet OF a broncho's back before.
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