Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 364
ad of a terrified fugitive, the hunterssteed instantly braces itself with its forefeet anddrops on its haunches so as to make an anchorage,as it were, for the caught mustang. And thereis no escape now for the captive. The hunter next blinds his prize, takes a turnof the lariat around its forelegs,… … jumps stiff-legged, plunges, and kicks.No animal in the world has so many tricks andantics as a newly captured wild horse ; but man,its conqueror, is equal to all of these. In a fewhours, the poor beast, so lately a free and carelesscreature, a wild rover of the boundless plains, isreduced to…
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