The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1895-06-28
sBREAKlNG' ATEXBSP0NY.
LIvELT rugsLE9 WITH THE WICK
I'D LITTLE SPANISH HORSE
Thrown nnd Uindfolded Whom Tie
Gets Up tic Fun Begins-somo
times "a Man ls Killed.

ttts-leAHA AtsAh pony lH .
X regular business on the 4
plains, says the New York .
World 10 Is Quo OF the /
most exciting episodes in che realm OF .
adventure, especially II he has any /
Spanish blood in him
In breaking a pony he is lariaied, /
thrown down and ehokod while the /
saddle Is being pat on him. A bride /
and a "haokamore, or rope halter, /
are put on his head. Then ho Is gem 4
orally blindiolled with big cowboy |
handkerchief, which consists of some
thing less than square yard of /
tough, thick calico. When an d. /
ready the rope is taken on aud She /
blindfolded pony scramblos to his
foot, and by the time lac gets there the
rider rs in the saddle. How he gets
there nobody knows, for nobody has
time 10 see.
Whom the pony gains his feet the
fun begins The stories about the
"bueking bronco" are not much exc
aggerated, simply because it would be
impossible 70 exaggcrate them much.
There is scarcely an article mention
able that he will not resort.
With his head ihr down between his
legs, he pitches his hinder quarters
straight up ten or fifteen times in a
minute, and then, to vary matters a
little, he assumes particular attitude
with the head end up. Suddenly he
half circles around TO the right, and
then, quick as flash, he half circles
back TO the left. In order TO keep his
place the rider has to set at defiance
tine law Of gravitation and every law
of motion laid down in the philoso-
Phies.
Meanwhile the pony is bowling and
believing much like bull yearling
when the hot brandIng-iron is applied.
IL he cannot get the rider off by fair
means he tries foul; that is, he rears
up and falls back with him. More
horsebreakers are killed in this way
than IN any other. The only thing for
one who wishes to live to do is to dart
ont from under the pony before he
falls. When the pony rises he must
| rise with it.
Sometimes the pony varies things
by lying perfectly quiet, and then the
breaker persuades him to rise by slit
ting his ears, burying his trowels in
his sides, putting sand in his nose and
gravel in his ears, and indulging in
other similar pleasantries
The Texan believes in general that
man is superior to the horse; in par
ticular, that there never can be a
horse so wild and vicious but that
some man can ride him. Cases have
been known where one horse has
killed three or four breakers, but in.
variably some man came along that
could ride better than the last one,
and eventually somebody succeeded.
For taking all the risks and doing
all the work involved the professional
horse breaker receives 81 for each
year of the horses age. If the horse
is a three-year-old he gets So for
breaking him; if a fve.year-old, So.
For doing nothing else but break
horses he receives the princely re-
Enumeration of $l5 per month anC
board.
OF course in handling wild horses
the equipments used must correspond
to the requirements of the work done
When tenderfoot first sees the pom
derous saddles that are put on sucl
diminutive ponies he is inclined t.
wonder. But if an ordinary saddl
were used the first Jump of the bronct
would break the girth, or if this wer,
not the case, the first time the ANNA
fell down the saddle would be a wreck
Then, again, it takes a good, stron|
saddle to stand the strain of a rop
when an able bodied 900 pound stee
is jerking at the other end of it. Tn
Texan calls an ordinary saddle "hu
man" saddle. Whether or not he con
siders his own saddle an "inhuman'
: one is another question. With all it
accompaniment and appendages j
weighs from fifty to seventy-fv
pounds, but to the inexperience,
hand who attempts to put it on hors
it seems to weigh about one hundre,
and fifty. A good stock saddle cost
from $40 to $50, whereas very goo,
COW pony costs from $40 to $40.
The brides correspond with til,
saddles in point of strength and size
1t is not an uncommon thing to find
bride bit alone that weighs from two
to three pounds. The "shank, as i
is called, is an iron bar some six o
eight inches long, running out fror
each end of the bit, with a ring in tn
end, to which the bride rein is fast