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The horse sprang into the air, twisted, and ca Noith his head between his forelegs he shot up his hind hoofs and at an angle to require all the grip in his rider's knees to stay in the saddle Then he brought down his heels again, violently, to bite at Pinkey--who kicked him

He "weaved," he "sunfished"--with every trick known to an old outlaw he tried to throw his rider, rearing finally to fall backward and mash to a pulp a bed of Mr Cone's choicest tulips But when the horse rose Pinkey ith hi themselves and each other, yelled like Apaches

With nostrils blood-red and distended, his eyes the eyes of a wild ani back on his haunches and springing forith a violence to snap any ordinary vertebra, the horse pitched as if there was no lienuity and endurance

Pinkey's breath was coasps and his colour had faded with the terrible jar of it all Even the uninitiated could see that Pinkey eakening, and the result was doubtful, when, suddenly, the horse gave up and stah the trellis over which Mr Cone had carefully trained his crinonette and sweet alyssuh "snowballs," lilacs, syringas, and rhododendrons to come to a halt finally conquered and chastened

The "88" brand has produced a strain fa for its buckers, and this venerable outlaw lived up to every tradition of his youth and breeding

There never orse bucking nor better riding in a Wild West Show or out of it, and Mr Appel declared that he had not been so stirred since the occasion alking in the woods at Harvey's Lake in the early '90's he had acted upon the unsound presumption that all are kittens that look like kittens and disputed the path with a black-and-white ani tears like a crocodile, without ar in his ue to a blister, while Miss Eyester dropped into a chair and had her sinking spell and recovered without any one re it In an abandonment that was like the delirium of madness Mr Cone went in and lifted Miss Gaskett's cat "Cutie" out of the plush rocker, where she was leaving hairs on the cushion, and surreptitiously kicked her

Altogether it was an unforgettable occasion, and only Pinkey seemed unthrilled by it--he dismounted in a businesslike, matter-of-fact manner that had in it neitherridden hi, for he said as he rubbed the horse's forehead: "You shore ot all the old curves and some new ones If I had a hat I'd take it off to you I ain't had such a churnin' sence I set 'Steamboat' fer fifteen seconds Oh, hullo----" as Wallie advanced with his hand out