Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-08-09
Stone & THOMA5.

around the saddle horn, frightened,
hummed. and broke, as the steer u
nor.ng his nearest foe, charged to"aTl
Jim. 80 horse on earth bur trained
COW pony can avoid such charge, and no
rider on earth but a trained cowboy can
stay on his back while he IS do'ns u.
Bur Jim. who could ride down and iuti
2 thlasAing gantopsail in a gale. dad
also had met some very active bronc. -
in the West. was as quick-Mo Toned rs
the horse be rode. and they promo. il'
disappeared from the maddened brute
range Of vision, bringing mp ID ms rear
THE WILD BEAST
Crazed by the yelping DOGS swapping
ar MS heels. the steer plunged Oh. mo
The street. around The corner and out
! The country road which the picnic parry
had taken in The morning. win Jim III
pursuit. rehind him Oh. cowboy VINO
! had DELAYED 10 borrow his fallen com
RAIDS lariat. and behind him The popuid-
tiou with sticks ana stones.
r. -1e cloud OF dus, raised 5y The SER
danced the frayed end of tA broken lar
iat. As Jim drew near be- s-nH down 10
the LEFT. gripping the saddle with ught
hand and knee. and seized this end
no. q difficult feat, even at full speed
for a cowboy.
Swinging back to his sent, while an en-
ccura2ing shout came from the cowboy,
ha wound il around the saddle horn and
refined IN his horse slowly a, irst.then
10 q full stop. The rotten ,3ri1t snapped,
and the steer, hardly checked in his rush.
numbered on. He cleared away his own
lariat and spurred after. The las, en-
thrsiast.c dog had now given up The
ENJOYABLE race and started home, each
one pausng at intervals % look back al
the retreating cloud of dus and voice his
opinion OF steers. jim had a clever
+ Id. Closer and closer he drew. with
the laria- whiriing over his head until
the wide horns were bu. twenty feet
away. and then 10 90. The loop wen,
true. though f. .o0k all his Strength 10
send il 50 far ahead from horseback at
the three-minu.e gait Ire was going.
Again he took a urn on the horn of
The saddle and checked his horse. This
time. though The laria- did not break,
the cinch. or girta Of the saddle did. and
Jim. saddle and all. went over the
horses head. He picked himself up I'M
hurt. and CATCHING the horse, mounted
bareback and resumed pursuit, not
knowing now. exactly, what he could do
unless he could PC. ahead and turn him
a doubtful feat with mad steer in con-
sdersjion. The cowLoy was yet a hun
! dred yards behind.
They had passed he scattered houses
ringing Tire village and were IN the OMEN
country Ahead. from some land dispute
or mistake in surveying. he read mar.
rOwed to a width Of six feet. turned
Sharply o the left and then stretched an
| in he original direction As no team.
! passed through, grass had grown and at
the bend Of the road. where this grass
was 'nickes,. little children We're PLAYING
| in the shade Of overhauging trees
through which the horrifeI Jim SAN
bright, shifting flecks Of cClCr. the picnic
! party returning.
At the rate they were going. steer,
| horse and rider. children and DicnicA-r.
would soon be struggling in a terrible
! death scramble in thai narrow hole Re
shouted with all The power Of his lungs
| but the children's backs were ,urned
they did not respond. and the under
! growth hid him from the Others. HC
thought Of Minnie, mangied by those
horns and cloven hoofs aad II al &C.
stacy Of horror and desperation, lowered
his head 10 the torse'a neck an,
wheeled the long spurs UP and down tn
| alraadv lacara.al sides. The listle al!