The sun., 1905-10-29

al, may In our Ia,t ride Ncllic, said,
but over we go
with that hit her sharp cut with the
whip and down we wont
"Iheard grcnt plash heatle me- and then
the water went over my head and did noe
know anything for moment When !
opened my eyes above water, Nellie Was
swimming hard for the bank
'We reached II safely, and we're fortunats
enough 10 come out on good solid. sandy
ground, where the little mare got foothold
and soon pulled us out on to tho bank Bue
poor George was not 40 fortunate. His popy
landed In quicksand and " | was not pretty
good at throwing lasso fear he would
never have got out -,
III. raw TINT te was IN trouble and knew
In minute what was the matter, ana g
good deal quicker than 1t takes me TO teII
II had thrown my rope, got IL around
his waist, and Nellie and / were pulling
for all we were worth. It did not take
long TO pull him out then we both pulled
his horse out, and were beginning TO think
that the worst Of our troubles were over
when we heard above us a great roarS and
splash and bang camo the cattle over
the blufr plunging madly one after anotheS
into the river
"You know stampeded cattle are really
mad, and no matter what crazy thing ond
will do, all the rest will follow | suppose
in their mad fight along tho narrow trail
one poor creature missed its footing and
fell over tho embankment and every one
Of the bunch came punging after.
Il heard George give a great shout and
cry out that the whole bunch would ba
drowned and the next thing I knew we
we're both swimming our horses down
stream, herding those crazy cattle in the
water. OF course We had no idea what
lay ahead of us, but we never stopped to-
figure. we did just what seemed best az
the moment. y
we both had good, intelligent; we'll
trained horses. and they seemed to know
what was to be done as well as we did.
As the cattle came plunging over the bank
we kept them away from the quicksanda
and herded them down stream; swirnS
ming our horses out of their reach. I
after a plunge in that Ice cold water\
had brought them to their senses little
they we're az meek as could be, and We
drove or rather swan that whole bunch
of cattle along down the stream until we
found place where we could drive them
out upon tho bank. and the stampede was
overland we never lost steer.
"When we came out of the river mother
was riding along the bank just about crazy
with fright. She thought that the cattle
had pushed us into the river and either
trodden us to death or drowned us.
THAT was one of the times when having
good, sensible, perfectly trained horse
beneath me saved my life. And there have
been other times, too. That is why | have
come to consider horse training a very
necessary and valuable science, and why
have made up my mind to devote my life
and what talents possess to the care and
training of horses.
"A badly broken horse is a ruined horse,
and usually a dangerous ore. You can
never tell when his bad training is going
| to cost the rider his life. ! believe that
the intelligence of horse can be cuiti-
! waited the same as the intelligence OF q
human being, and that cannot be done BY
curses and kicks and blows. but by the
same gentle, patient methods that one
should Use in teaching child.
! Perhaps it seems rather queer sort OF q
| business for girl to go into. does it? But i
seem to be particularly adapted to it by
I nature. and ! believe that every person
shn Id follow his or her natural bent. I
love horses, and believe that kindness1
! gent.eness and firmneSs are the qualitca-
tions most essential in training them, and
| think that if can make outlaws and un-i
| manageable horses into good and useful
/ animals without cruel or inhuman treat
ment, will be doing some little good in the
world.