the last moment , with tactics more like a mule than a horse , he presented his shoulder to his on-coming adversary . The shock was too great for the mustang who was badly thrown . Instantly the stallion was on him , and , with a furious kick , broke his enemy ’ s neck . The band , accepting the stallion as their leader , moved off up the valley . The manager of the Triangle C then said that anyone who caught the outlaw would get fifty dollars . The cowboys tried all kinds of means to effect his capture . Some tried roping , but that was useless . They made countless corrals , but he always discovered the trap . They tried putting guards around the watering holes , but when the horses were becoming weak it rained . Finally they gave it up and for two years he reigned supreme .
By this time everybody had heard of the wonderful brown stallion and many punchers came from neighboring ranches to try their luck . They were invariably beaten , until one day the outlaw came up against a new kind of a corral and was caught . In vain he raged and tore around his prison . It was too high to jump and too strong to break through . Then his captors came and roped him . ldc stood quite still while being saddled , but when he felt the man on his back and the sharp sting of the quirt , he began to pitch . He bucked , sunfished , twisted , did everything possible to unseat his rider . In desperation he reared straight up as if to fall over backwards . Then , as he loosed his stirrups to leap from the saddle the horse came down with his fore feet and up with his hind . It was too much for the cowboy — splendid rider as he was . The horse turned , and seeing him lying breathless on the ground , trampled him into the earth until he lay still , all life extinct . Then he galloped for the gate , the cowboys not daring to withstand him .
He still roams and reigns on the plains ; and strangers often tell of the wonderful chocolate-colored stallion , white-maned and tailed .
If she took her thimble off her finger , would Lois Prickett ? Tf we all had to work , would Elsie Cook or Marjorie be a
Kohlman ? If we go to school five days a week , would Agnes go a Darner ?
( day more ). Tf Miss Gordon called the boarders , would Irene Hyde ? if Leila turned Knight , would Kitty Armour her ?
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