The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1891-06-06
Che Thibolaux Sentinel,
SATURDAY. JUNE 1891
RIDING 4 B41NC0.
You Can't Always Tell What May Hap
pen on Sueh an Occasion.

II can ride him."
OF course he could. He had taken 4
thorough course at a riding academy
in the eastern metropolis he hal ed
from. says the Free Press; no Montana
bronco cCuId get away with him. The
BOYS arnnEd The corral winked 1T each
othe3 and did tieir best to get the ten
dertuo; Oil that buckskin broncoS
back. The majority Of them had
dealt 9Th snch men before and they
knew there WAS more fun to be eN
tractel from Il smart Aleck and IL wild
bronco t.ltn from any other combina
ton under the sun.
"Ion'r- ID lider,' said Joe Collins
enthusiastically, Il can see it stickin'
right ont st yon."
Il 1,atter myself / can tide a little
said he tenderioot with a gratliied
smile. If you can Get Il saddle and
bride OF. tie bronco I'll show You Il
few tricks ut horse-bleaking"
The bronco WAS scarcely larger
than IL good-Sized colt. and he stood by
the corral with head down and his
little body hunclled up as though he
anticipated some attempt at hiding
him.
He lnoked very meek-that buck
skin uroucn-but his %meekncSs was
gore IN Il moment when he saw Joe
Collins lugg;ns toward him a big
"greaser@ saddle with Il double cinch
and II hnlschair bride.
1t took four men TO saddle and
bride that little piece of lightning,
but 1T last it was done and Joe Collins
told the tendertoot the bronco was
ready.
"Ubserve, gentlemen" said Smith
(Tll call him Smith, but that wasn't
his uame), that cIenoe wins the
day against brute force every time ="
"Then he went up to the bronco
just as ii he was leading oft some new
figure in a german. Before you could
say Jack Robinson Mr.. Bronco
wheeled around and shot out with his
hind feet III such a way as to give
Smith Il love-pat that foored him.
Science got Il black eye that time
and it took Smith ten minutes to re-
cover.
SCOT enough' ," asked Joe Collins.
"No, sir said Smith, rather feeblv
though ''he took me unawaleS, but
I'll look oat for that kind OF a move
this time
"That's the kind of a bird Il bronco
is" said Collins; you can't tell what
They're going to do. They're just
like ludlans-deceitful."
Slnitn went at it a. little differently
ext time and succeeded in :, ting
into the saddle, but the horse wouldn't
bulge. That's a regular bronco trick,
Thel1H stand stock still sometimes,
like a piece Of stone, and then of ii
sudden away they'll 90 ike a fash.
Then Smith said "You see. gentle
men, the horse is paralyzed into ODE
deuce. lie knows by instinct that
his master is in the saddle. and he is
endeavoring to recover his horse sense.
We will help hlm recover it. Mr.
Collins, may | trouble you 70 get u
pitchfnrk and tickle him in the
flank .
"Anytlrin', anythin', Mr. smith,
said Joe, and he got Il pitchfork with
a very long landle,an proceeded 10
''touch up the bronco.
Well, he moved, and | can get an
affidavit from every one present that
he moved 50 quick he splinteied out
into IL whole herd Of broncos and the
heavens were full of Smith. Smith fell
at least fifteen feet from where the
horse threw him and Mr.. Bronco dlsap-
peared i'll the horizon at the cardinal
point THAI 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 earth
quake 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
l have Away thought the description
of riding Il wild bronco which he gave
when a trihe ''fighty" was about as
neal the mark as words could put it.
No one can realize what a feeling it is
until he goes through the experience
himself.
An anecdote showing Lincoln's