Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-06-15

it there till perfectly dry. Then take
the rear or hand end in your left hand
and with the right coil the whole rope
into that hand, toward you, in coil of
say two feet in diameter, taking care
that the successive coils do no not cross
| each other, but lie fiat to each other like
so many hoops held side by side. Tie a
cord through and around the coils on on g
side 70 keep them together, and hang
over peg TO let the rope Fget accus-
toned. ~ The reata, to do good work +,
should alVRys be thus coiled and hung up
| after use otherwise it will acquire kinks ),
and fail to wofSk just when you want it
most.
Your lasso is y ow ready for use. You
must of course at first practice on foot,
and at stationary mark-a post five or
six feet high Is bestt. Begin at distance
Of twelve to ffteen$ feet, which may be
increased as you gain proficiency to the
| range of your ropeH-thirty- feet.
That is far enough to throw lasso. The
higher distances are attempted only by
rare experts with extraN long ropes.
have seen one lasso his ruIAning target at
even sixty feet: but he was the only man
1 ever saw make it at thsht astounding
range.
rope, reeve the hand-end Through the
houda, and run it up till THE moose is
about seven feet long. Then i take the
hand-snd in your left hand, an a coil the
rope carefully to it until you are within
six feet of the moose. Take thLh rope u
foot on each side of the houda together
in your right hand-as Francisco lis doing
in figure No. thus making a 1empor-
ary extra loop to prevent the houda
from slipping forward and shutting the
moose.
Now you are ready to calm. - Stand
with your right foot a little forward,
lift the right arm till the fist easily clears
the head-about as in swinging Indian
clubs-and begin to revolye the Moose
over your head with an easy motion\ of
the arm from right to left and q perfeht-
Is flexible wrist. See Figure No. .. lit
i the wrist that does the chief wolEk
here, as in most other matters of deXf-
tsrity. Whirl the rope just fast enough
so that you ca guide it into q plane tCb
the ground, the whole moose reyolYinEk
on a level as If it were wheel, of which,
your uplifted arm is the axle.
When you have the moose going thusk
horizontally and have calculated as WE'LL
as you can the force necessary to carry iii
over the post, give q quick step iorWardI
with the left foot in front; and in the !
same instant, bringing your hand palm
downward) forward and down to the
level of the shoulder but at full arm
length and without breaking the rhythm
of the sweep-let go. Figure No. 3
shows the position of body, arm and
hand in the instant of delivery.
If you have done this properly the
moose will go sailing forward like hoop,
in plane almost parallel to the ground.
Whether it falls over the post is a matter
about which you need not worry for some
time. The first great difficulty is to send
the moose level; and when you have
mastered that the proper cultivation of |
force will come soon enough without
practice.
The coil in the left hand must of course |
be held loosely in fingers upcurved but |
not closed, so that it may tpay out
sasiIy as the moose "calls. The end. |
or the last coil, should be securely held,