Horses -- Juvenile fiction; West (U.S.) -- Juvenile fiction
A move from the direction of that saddle right then would of queered
things and made Smoky scatter, and Clint couldn't of held him either
for a ways, but the hunk of leather layed still, mighty still, and
pretty soon it kinda lost its dangerous look to the little horse,--he
begin looking around for other things in that corral which wouldn't be
to his liking and not seeing anything that was worth getting spooky at
Smoky begin watching the cowboy again.
It was about then that Clint reached over and picked up the saddle slow
and easy and drug it closer to Smoky. At the first move of the riggin'
the little horse snorted and backed away but Clint and the saddle kept
a coming straight towards him, slow but steady. One side of the high
corral finally was reached. Smoky had backed against it and couldn't go
no further. The cowboy, still hanging onto the rope that held his head,
came on, saddle and all with him, and quivering with fear the little
horse layed low. Feet straight out in front and head near to the ground
he stayed there, and got another and different eddication with the
saddle, this time it was dragging.
[Illustration: The cowboy still hanging onto the rope that held his
head, came on, saddle and all with him, and quivering with fear the
little horse layed low, feet straight out in front and head near to the
ground he stayed there.]
When Clint thought that had gone far enough and seen where Smoky had
got over the worst of his fear he layed the saddle down again, and
picking up an old saddle blanket he begin fanning the air with it,
closer and closer to Smoky came the blanket as the fanning motion
kept on, and stary eyed the little horse watched. He struck at it and
snorted a couple of times and he even tried to turn and kick, but the
blanket came on till finally one corner of it grazed his side. He
flinched and kicked and tried to jerk away but there was no dodging
that spooky looking thing.
Not a word was heard from the cowboy as the "sacking" went on, this
was a part of the eddication that was necessary and which should be
put thru mighty quiet. It was all a spooky enough performance to a raw
bronc without adding on any talking, and even tho the goings on scared
the pony near out of his hide, that blanket done the trick of showing
him that no matter how bad it looked it wasn't going to hurt him. It
was one mighty good thing to teach him general confidence in the cowboy
and his riggin'.
Smoky fought like a cornered wolf and tried to get away, but he had
no chance,--Clint had "sacked" many a bronc that'd fought as much and
the cigarette between his lips noticed no change of spells between
puffs. Smoky showed hate and fear of the human once again the same as
when he was first caught, his instinct had warned him to expect most
anything from that crethure, and he wasn't surprised at the way things
had turned;--but that didn't help any, he just wanted to sail clear
over the corral and disappear.
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