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Show Stallluua FiEhc. One of the most terrible battles that , probably ever tuuk place between j ranch stallions occurred near the home ranch of the Little Miouri Elorse farm j in the spring of ibb-i. at the time when the several hu fit-hea or droves of hortes ) were being driven hi from tlie ranees for an ox-count of srtx-k and for the branding of the young colts. It hap x-ii.-d by the merest chance that three druvt'H came in toother, with the stallions stal-lions k-adim.'. .Naturally the three joined, and at once arose the question i,( l.;(il'rliin. This could oulv be 1 nettled by a battle, and before the j herders could begin to form any plan for separating them, the three stallions , were engaged in fiercest battle. As described by those who taw It, this battle was so savage and so bloody that it seemed certain that at least one of the combatants must be killed. It lusted a little more than twenty minutes, min-utes, und when tho "smoke of battle'" drifted away and the right was done, a ; big gray Pen-heron called Napoleon was seen to be the victor, and he It . wax that, with uplifted head and proudly proud-ly curved tail, led the company of mares and colts to the pastures, while the two defeated ones marched together, to-gether, like whipped curs, dejectedly in the rear. In this instance, although the fight was an unusually desperate one, and all three horses were badly cut and torn, none of the three suffered more than temporary discomfort. Harper'B Weekly. |