The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-06-20
RIDING a BRONCO.
You Can't Always Tell What May Happen
ON Such an Occasion.
81 can ride him -"

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ON Such an Occasion.
81 can ride him."
OF course he could. He had taken n
thorough course at riding academy in
the eastern metropolis he hailed from;
no Montana bronco could get away
with him. The boys around the corral
winlsed at each other and did their boSt
TO get the tenderfoot on that buclSslSin
bronco's back. The majority of them
had dealt with such men before and
they knew there was more fun to be eX-
tractcd from a smart Aleck and wild
bronco than any other combination un-
der the sun.
you're a rider" said Joe Collins, en-
Enthusiastically. 81 can see it sticlsin
right out of you"
81 flatter myself can ride a little"
said the tenderfoot, with gratified
smile. "If you can get a saddle and
bride on that bronco, I'll show you n
few tricks at horse-brealSing.
The bronco was scarcely larger than
good-sized colt, and he stood by the
corral with his head down and his little
body hunched up, as though ne antici-
pated some attempt at riding him.
He looked very meek-that buclSsltin
bronco--but his meekncss was gone in
n moment when he saw Joe Collins lug
ging toward him big ''greaser" sad
die with double cinch and horsehair
bride.
1t took four men to saddle and bride
that little piece of lightning, but at last
it was done and Joe Collins told the ten
derfoot the bronco was ready.
"Observe, gentlemen, said Smith U'll
call him Smith, but that wasn't his
name), that science wins the day
against brute force every time"
Then he went up to the bronco just
like he was leading off some new figure
in a German. Before you could say
Jack Robinson" Mr.. Bronco wheeled
around and shot out with his hind feet
in such way as to give Smith love-
pat that hoored him. ''Science" got a
black eye that time and it took Smith
ten minutes to recover.
"Got enoughP" asked Joe Collins
mo, SIR" said Smith, rather feebly,
though; "he took me unawares, but I'll
look out for that kind of movement
this time"
|
is" said Collins; cant tell what they're
going to do. They're just like Indians
-deceitful.'
Smith went at it little differently
next time and succeeded in getting into
the saddle, but the horse wouldn't
bulge. That's regular bronco trick.
They'll stand stock still sometimes, like
piece of stone, and then of sudden
away they'll go like flash.
Then Smith said: You sec gentle
men, the horse is paralyzed into obedi-
ence. He knows, by instinct, that his
master is in the saddle, and he is en-
deavoring to recover his horse-sense.
We will help him recover it, Mr. Col
Inns, may trouble you to get pitch
fork and tickle him In the fiank?"
"Anythin', anythin', Mr.. Smith, said
Joe, and he got pitchforl1 with very
long handle and proceeded to ''touch
up the bronco.
Well, he moved and can get an affi-
davit from every one present that he
moved so quick that ne splintered out
into whole herd of broncoes and the
heavens were full of Smith Smith fell
at least fifteen feet from where the
horse threw him and Mr.. Bronco disap-
peared in the horizon at the cardinal
point that lay nearest his old Montana
home.
Smith was unconscious when we
picked him up and he remained so for
several days-out of his head all the
time. He had an idea that he had been
riding a cyclone, that an earthquake
had shaken him off and that he had
fallen two or three miles and struck
earth on the Rock of Gibraltar
He got his senses back in time, but /
have always thought the description of
riding a wild bronco, which he gave
when a trifle ''highty," was about as
near the mark as words could put it.
No one can realize what feeling it is
until he goes through the experience
himself. Detroit Free Press.