Gloucester County Democrat., 1906-09-20

the worst OF the business. TO haEh
strung animal the roping. throwing nd
burning is a trelnendou nervous shock,
For days after branding a horse will
Jump and start, quivering with zex-
zpeetasit agohy,kat the slightest cause
1t was fully week before the black
thoroughbred was himself again.
that time he had conceived such deep
and clasting hatred for all men. cow
boys ifl particular, as only high splr-
| tied blue blooded horse can acquire.
With; deep contempt he watched ~zhe
scrubby little cow ponies as they deg
gedly carried about those wild, fierce
men who threws their circIlAg, Wis
ting. hafefal Sropass who wore such
big, sharp spurs and who were vicIeus-
! IL handy infusing theirsfA Wilde quirts.
So when cowboy put a breaking
sbit into the blacks mouth there wa ?
another lively scene. It was somewhat
confused, this scene, but at intervals
one could make out that the man, hold
ing stubbornly to name and foreIoek,
was being slatted and slammed and
jerked, now with his feet on the
ground, now thrown high IN the air
and new angling pegiloaslY and at
various angles. as. the stallion raced
away. Q11VnpIA Ynh q
/ IN thele1idy nfI G6hFse, came the whis-
tie of the choking, foot tangling ropes,
and tie black vas saddled. For q
deree half hour Ahe took punishment
from bit and spur and Quirt; then, al
though he gave it Eup, it was nor that
his spirit was broken, but because his
wind was gone Quite passively he al
lowed himself tocbe ridden out on the
prairies to where the herds We're graz
ing
Undeceived by this apparent dociI-
itE, the cowboy, when the time came
for him to bunk down under the chuck
wagon for a few hours of sleep, teth-
cred his mount quite securely 70 deep
driven stake BefoFes the eaftleman
had taken more than round dozen OF
,winks the black had tested his tether
to the limit of his strength. The tether
stood the testssA cow pony might have
done this much. There he would have
stopped But sthe black was a Ken
lucky thoroughbred, blessed with the
inherited, Intelligence: of noble sires,
some of whom had been household
pets. So he investigated the tetherlatI
close rangers ss
Feeling the stake with his sensitive
upper lip, he discovered it to be firm
=a=rock-Next= he backed away and
-wrenehed. tentatively at the halteraun-
til convinced that the throat strap was
thoroughly sound. His last effort must
have been an. Inspiration Alta cKing
the tant buckskin rope withghis teeth,
he worked diligently until he had sew
cred three Of the four strands. Then
he gathered himself for another lunge.
With a snap the rope parted, and the
black dashed away Into the night.
leaving the cowboy snoring confidently
by the campfire .e.ss I isss ssssi ssss rs
= Allsnight he ran on and on ino the
darkness, stopping only to listen tre1l
blEngly to the echo Of his own hoofs,
and to sniff suspiciously at the crouch
ing shadows of innocent bushes. 5aBy
morning he had left the Bar Il outfit
many miles behind, and when the red
sun rolled up over the edge Of the
prairie he saw that he was alone. in a
field that stretched FYIls. uilbroken to the the
3circ1ing sky lineg s4spnisn sl5ii saa ses4a
as ,5ssN Not Unit until noon idid tlle1 runaway
black scent water. q Half nnnad with
thirst, he dashed t9 the edge Of a mud
'dy yislittle,sstreanb and sucked down
great dfaftt t. As 8 he raised MS head
he saw standing poised a abeyehh hints on
.fI1e posfte hl with ears laid mem
acingly fiat and nestrilso adauiyera lin,
nervous paHftation bueksk I's * il colosred
stallion s ia aqians2sa iseqT H1ooes
= Snoring e 4 from fright black
wheeled andoran. He7heard behind him
a 7shrifl neigh Of challenge and IN p
rnoments the thunder af.elnanya h0ofs.s
looking back he saw fully a score of
horses, the buckSkin stal lion in the YAM
charging after hin, That was enough.
Enling his great lungs with aairssh he
.ieaped into. such a burst Of speed that
his pursslers soon tired of, the hopeless
chase Finding that he, was no longer
followed, the black grew curious. Gal
loping afn d circle dhea gradually APP
preached the band. 9 The horses had set
tied down to the cropping ef buffalo
grass only the huckskfn stallioni who
had taken d position on as1ittle Knoll,
remaining on guard Is .5is.s :a,5 s.s.ss s.
rf1 81 ,7s.pri,1sF thing n IaflJ1f This hand