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Show I 5? Sfkemes 3rom Sngltsh f Classes of Sftrattch Dlormal. A LOCOED HOSRE. Tlmo passing slowly Ht Tea Bnr ltsnob wo took or lunohoon and plakot-ropos and for tho twentieth . time, porbars. opeut a half day In exploring tho noolm and crnunies of n pioturerque and pine-grown canyon. Wo bad, this afternoon, gono farther than UBual; for wo hod dosaeuded tho ilat Greek Uluffs, and were well out upon the canyon road when Mary's attoution was called to the pooullar antloa of n rungo horse at tho foot of a bill a littlo in front of us. Tho animal reeled round in a In n oirclo at a awift gallop and bit and struok, it appeared, at au imalgnary foe. "Look at that pony I What oon ho tho matter with It?" Mary called out. Remembering what my brother . . bed said about tho opldomio among . - the homo no n result of eating looo- weod, and that four horns tho laBt season hod gone crazy by It, I decided it wbo a "locoed horso." Jaok bad told us that If 'wo ever caw a Icooed horso to stand or sit perfootlv etlll and it would never notice us. 80 wo draw in our bones, hardly daring to speak as tbo mud beast, oirollng round iu its mad pace, drew nearer and noarer tbo road. Now and then tho flghHua areaturo stopped, threw up Its lioad and stared; then with burcd tcolb, It plunged Bidowlso, snnppiug uud etrik lug viciously Into spsoa. In three or four minutes tho nnitrnl came to tho road and stood, seemingly impieEsed with tho penfio that thero was a big trail, but undetermined which nuy to turn. Then It wheeled in n cloud of dust, and dnsbod straight down tlin road just ns four children In brlvht pink dreose?, now mero blotches ot color, onaio up aver a littlo rldgo about a rnilo la front of it. Wo knew thero wus not an instant to hesitate, so giving our ponies a quick iasb, wo wore rnoog neck and oook upon tbo dusty trail cf tho mad bono. Wo bad ofton practiced rope throwing oa n pastime, but neitbor of us had ever roped n wild horso from 1. the saddlo. Wo now fastened ono ond of our Jobboq to tho horns of our saddles nnd got tbom ready to throw. Tho horso wob eomo dletanco ahead i and" wo could sen that speed was necessary to savo tho children, so wo died our quirts mercilessly, bending forward upon our penies' ueoks end pushing tho animals to a paco which made tho wind vrliistlo shrilly iu our oars. ( Wo galnod on tho horse, for it wbb wasting energy iu vicious side ! etrokos, with now nnd thou wild shnk- ! ings of its head. Wo wore almost up. on its hoyla as it drow near tho children. Mary shoutod to them to I jio down, but they were so frightened they turned and ran back down tho road. Instantly tho fiuttor of thoir pink dresses caught tbo eyo of tho locoed horse, and with bnapping teeth ho daahod straight at them. TblB gavo Mary tbo obanco sho was . waiting for and leaning woll forward, eho swung bor ropo with oaro and dropped it fairly ovor tbo boad of tho orazy horso. Sho roined her pony in, and ho dropped back instantly on hlB haunobos, causiuc tbo frantio beast to turn n eummersanlt as oaally in If I a trained otbleto had managed it. But tho fight had just begun. I threw my ropo for the creature's legs as I had eoen my brothers do with wild horses nud cattle, but tbo ropo missed aud before I oould turn my boise to throw it ngp.ln. tho animal wns on his foot and charging headlong at Mary's pony. It boing well trained, dodgod and Mary managed ber ropo nnd stuck to her saddle like an old rider. I oiroled round tho horso trying to catch its lege but each timo was foiled by it9 erratic movements. After our first fear was over nnd wo could seo wo hud him cornered tho ilgbt was dolightful. Oor hate wore oir, our hair flying In tbo wind and our fnaea red and prespiring. Tbreo times Mary dodged the boast and it wns thrown Load over hoele. Eaoh timo it fol! I threw my ropo for ita heels. Tho third timo I succeeded in looping both its hind lege, and tbo orazy beast was socu etrotcbod full length upou tbo grass. Tbo frightened children ran baok to Hat Ranch and brought a boy with ' bla riflo who soon ondod tho poor Beast's lifo. RUBV LEIGH. |