The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-06-30

lively fashion for twenty minutes or half
an hour to rid himself of the saddle, de-
spite the choking Of the rope. This takes
ths feather-edge off him, and he will end
up his play covered with foam and quite a
bit tired. some extra vigorous busters
rids the pony right of. but the more judi
cious p efer to let him tire himself out
first. When this is done the pony is grad
ually worked out on the prairie and may
perhaps have to be thrown again to clnch
him up and get ready for the ride. 10 keep
him down while the rider gets ready, the
other man sits on his head, while the rider
puts aside his six-shooter and hat and
coat and everything supertlnous, but keers
his spurs and quirt. Then he seizes
the saddle and gets his foot in the
and the instant he reaches his feet the bus
ter is in the saddle. 1t is incredible how
active these men can be. Then the fun be-
gins, and the rider and pony go at 1t IN earn
est. The other man sometimes goes along
on another horse, with a rope to catch the
pony if things work wrong; bat he Is a wall
flower, and takes no part IN the dancing.
1t is pretty rough sport. The pony may be
d running bucker, and may stand stock
still and buck in place at unexpected inter-
uals; he may buck over Il bank; he may
buck and pitch n somersault forward; he
NAV rear and fall over backward. This
rider wants both to stick to MS pony and
be ready to vault off in short measure it
essential. He uses all the legs nature has
given him, stl. rup or no stirrup, and lashes
his pony at eyerv rise with all his might.
The suaviter in modo is absolute y sunk In
| the ~fortiter in re. When the pony rises, the
trick is to get away from the camille, and
the heavy buster has a fashion when the
pony comes down of settling himself in his
seat with a hard Jolt and an "Ugh" a thing
which soon tires out the little fellow, which
weighs barely four times as much as the
man, and is working a dozen times as hard.
One way Or other the pony will keep his re-
sistance up for 4 ce tain length of time,
accot ding to disposition; but in a couple of
hours he will he will he ridden down. I'm
lees he gets his rider into q snarl. and thus
earns a let up, he will be SO played out that
he will go along pretty q~uistlv. with but
slight attacks of his bucking fever. He has
found his master, and he knows it. One
more ride will be the final polish of his
MISUNDERSTANDING. The kinderCartening
a repetition of the first in I. slightly modi-
fed and less dangerous fo;m. After this
the pony is considered 'busted;" but
his grammar-schooling he gets from the
cowboys use. He never reaches the high
or normal school, let alone the college; but
be has a knack of educating himself, and
the mount of information and skill he will
pick up of ms own accord at c~ow-punching
IL wonderful. He OF course Is taught to
guide by the neck. and he twists and TURNS
IN the erformance OF his duties with ex-
trao dlna;y intelligence and q%uickness: but
Il good deal of what he does is not so much
taught by an educational process us picked
up by repetition OF the same work. which,
after all, is the only way a horse eycl
learns. Colonel y. A. Dodge III Harper's
Magazine.