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Her expression attracted Canby's attention even before she pointed and cried sharply: "Look!"
Aunt Lizzie was still busy with her pebbles, a tiny, tragic figure she looked, in vieas happening, as she walked along in leisurely fashion, stopping every step or two to pick up and exa-horns had come closer, but one had drawn out fro its head as it trotted down upon her
Wallie had long since abandoned the pony he was leading, and with all the speed his oas capable of, was doing his best to intercept the ani way off and even as Helene cried out the steer broke into a gallop
Canby, too, instantly grasped the situation
"If I only had a rifle!"
"Perhaps we can turn it! We'll have to athered the reins and were spurring their horses down the declivity
Canby's thoroughbred leaped into the air as the steel pricked it and Helene was soon left behind She saw that she could figure only as a spectator, so she slowed down and watched what followed in fascinated horror
Canby was considerably farther off than Wallie, in the beginning, but the racing blood in the fore of its rider It stretched out and laid down to its work like a hare with the hounds behind it, quickly equalizing the distance
Aunt Lizzie was poking at a rock with her toe when she looked up suddenly and saw her danger The steer with a spread of horns like antlers and tapering to needle points was rushing down upon her, infuriated
For a moment she stood, ith terror, unable to , she ran as fast as her stiff old legs could carry her
Wallie and Canby reached the steer aloodly distance still intervened between it and Aunt Lizzie, but the gap was shortening with sickening rapidity and Helene grew cold as she saw that, try as they ht, they could not head it
The ani victie it further, for it baith anger The fluttering petticoats were a challenge, and the steer was bent on reaching and destroying the strange object with the weapons nature had given it It was accustomed to horsemen and had no fear of the just ahead, so it ignored Canby and Wallie, and they could not swerve it