Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-03-29
FUN or BREAKING A BRoNcHo.

FUN or BREAKING A 5RoNcHo.
Tho Severe But salutary Lessons Given b.
Cowboys to Unbroken Colts.
While the boss goes on assigning tho
horses, Tex coils up his RATA, } rope o.
plated rawhide as large as your finge,
aid from fifty to eighty feet long. On
the end of this is worked a ahondoo," o.
small ring Of cowhide, through which the
ropo is doubled, and he pulls enough
slack through it to make a loop fifteen OF
twenty feet in circumference. Holding
the coil in his left hand, he grasps the
rope just outside the loop and holds it in
his right hand, doubled back on the loop.
Then ne 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 tho end of
the rope at full speed, and meanwhile
Tex crouches on the ground, with his
weight thrown back on tho rope. The
pony changes ends with a jerk that al
most breaks his neck, and then Tex run
up to him. This gives him slack and
starts him again, and after the perform
ance has been gone through a dozen
times the pony has learned not to "run
on a rope" and the first step toward his
education is accomplished. He is then
named. This isa subject for debate, and
lex finally decides on "Streaks," as APP
propriate to a 'palnt" or piebald horse.
Strcals is led out of the corral, and,
while n of the other boys holds the
rope, Tex takes another rope, and as the
pony run past him snares his foro feet
and throws HIM. This second rope is
passed to another man, who holds it SO
that the pony is powerless.
Blanket and saddle are clinched on,
and "hackamore," q sort of halter. with a
n~ose-piece that will draw tightly when
pulled, is put ON. Tie this is added a
horsehair rope, called a macarte, and,
after a handkerchief has been put owe
the pony's eyes the other ropes are
loosed. Streaks plunges to his feet and
runs on I We macarte. This he finds even
more Improbable that 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 saddle. Streaks looks as if he meant
mischief, and the by-staaders climb up
on the corral to be out of harms way.
Sometimes a mounted man is at hand
to "haze" the broncho and keep him
from running through a wire-fence or
smashing into a wagon. Tex reaches
over and raises the blina, and then.the
Jun begins. streaks stands still for a
moment, and then makes a mad plunge
i'll the air and lands on his stiffened ffvre-
legs, with his nose almost on the ground.
Tex mas balanced himself and returns
the compliment with a touch of the
spur. Streaks makes q succession of
plunges, changing ends at every jump,
and slr1king the ground like a street.
plumb son of gum" for he pitches in.
a circle, which is far harder for the rider
than If he pitched straight ahead.
The boys shout encouragingiy: "Sit
him deep, Tex!" California him!n
Hang and rattle!!n 9set him afre!!.
Look for a prickly pear to light on!"
Mind that prairie-dog town." Tex plies
spur and cuerdo, shouting "I-;c-a-a," a
talismanic word of much repute among
"broncho busters" Streaks finds that
bucking is no use, and he suddenly rears
and falls over backward, driving the horn
of the saddle into the ground. He looks
around to enjoy the sight of Tex's life
less body, but Tex is standing by his
head with the coil of the macarte, when
aad 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 a bolt of it. A mile or two
tells on hum, and Tex manages to jerk his
head around SO that he heads for home
again. When the pony is SO exhausted
that he is comparatively submissive no is
a sbroko horse" He will DO harder to
ride tho second time when he is bitted
than the first, but by the time he has
been mounted half a dozen times he will
be quite tractable. Then he has to be
taught to asavvy cows" and must learn
to dodge, stop and whirl around like a
cat.-San francisco Chronicle.