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Show Pkkalto'3 HoKSFMANi-'Hir. There was ono nuistanR, a vicious, white : brute, named Santa Anna, who occasioned occa-sioned much trouble, lie would do everything aavo stand still. It was ol no iiao to blind him, for every time he heard another mustang coming down the home stretch, he would plunge madly about, pulling the p rooms all over the track. As the Mexican came down to mount him near the wire, at one attempt he reared, and striking out caught the lariat between hid lega like a dog, sent the groom up against the fence and ran oil up the track. At the next attempt he reared so high that he tell over upon hia back. At the third attempt Feral to jumped for him, and putting hia Itft foot into the stirrup, stir-rup, seized the lariat. No a oner did the brute feel the weight of the rider than he made a plunge and then reared, but before he was level again Peralto bad swung into his sent and went to work with the spura. The mustang backed several times and made for the fence, but finding it useless aud hia lider firmly seated, he made ofl down tho stretch like a shot. It whs aunpeib exhibition of horsemanship, and was greeted with continued applauso. |