Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1919-08-07

with his hands in his pockets Offering
gratuitous advice to the harassed
horse-breaker.
A final lunge OF the pony success
fully unseated his rider jus. as the
train, putting laboriously, drew slowly
into the station.
The animal, in the general inatten-
tion, would have made good its break
for freedom, had not the idle dreamer
on the platform, with sudden, unlock
ed-for agility, sprung at its head, hung
dragging for an instant at the bit as
It reared, and then slipped nimbly into
the saddle before the astonished and
affronted beast could draw fresh
breath.
The outraged pony, however, was
bent on asserting a declaration of in
dependence on his own account.
He struggled furiously, he lashed
out with his shining plates of steel,
he sat on his launches, and then
sprang straight into the air; he twist
ed, bit, and fought with jarring in.
sistence, but the supple, catlike form
on his back he was no more able to
dislodge than If he had been an equine
6indbad saddled with q second Old
Man OF the Sea.
On the steps of one of the Pullman
sleepers two men watched the strug-
gle with keen relish.
"Jove, the fellows made Of copper
wires," said the elder of the two.
He was shick-set, gray man with
. strong face, and the veiled, yet
keen glance of the successful financier
and manipulator Of men.
Charged with a strong battery
from the center" answered his com.
panion, as the pony stopped for a
moment in his eruptive sareer to
mediate.
Look! he's winning out. I'm going
to talk to him."
The bronco. having prolonged his
meditations as to his next move un-
duly, had been curbed to his launches
by thin hand Of steel, and after a
moment of tentative indecision agreed
to give up the struggle, and stood
sweating and trembling in his tracks.
The raucher slipped down, stopped
to give caress to the flaring, painting
nostrils and quivering neck, handed
the reins to the recalcitrant pony's
dust-covered owner, who had been
thrown, and came up to where the
engine, momentarily disabled, was be-
ing tinkered into going order by q
nc nho nj
His dark face was unf1ushed, his
narrow, heavy-lidded eyes as dreamy
as they had been as he looked out
over the desert, but under his torn
shirt his chest painted quickly.
He put his hands in his pockets
and walked slowly down beside the
train, whose usual few-minute stop
was to-day prolonged indefinitely by
the broken machinery.
Past him there streamed the motley
array of humanity from the wicker
seated tourist cars.
Women with babies and baskets.
Indian braves in civilians clithes, with
long plaits of well-oiled hair tied with
scarlet ribbons under their gray Stet-
sons, their belts bristljng with an
array of cutlery whose morning ad.
justment was their sole conception of
the exigencies of the toilet, and
squaws in beads and calico, hostile,
half savage, wholly unwashed.
German immigrants, shining with
sap and recent dinner from their
overflowing baskets. Poles were there,
| Jews and Italians-a throng hedged
severely as the sheep from the goats,
from the languidly Interested travellers
in the big Pullman coaches. with their
luxurious diner and drawing-room.
The rancher glanced about him, and
then far down the platform to where