Li RR BUCK 



OLD V. 



A FIGHT TO A FINISH 



"Hook 'im cow!" is an expression often heard from the cow- 

 boy contingent when a steer is winning after putting up a good 

 fight, and so it yipped out when Jack Fretz lost out against a 

 brute of a longhorn from the same bunch of steers as that which 

 vanquished Hunter. 



The brute literally wore the man out and in this scene is try- 

 ing to trample him to death by dancing a can-can all over him. 

 But that cowboy was not born yesterday. Lying on his back he 

 never for a moment loses his head — he uses it to think and 

 dodge with — while at the same time he uses his hands to good 

 advantage in side pushing away the vicious down-pounding, 

 drill-edged hoofs above him. 



This picture is ace high among the author's bulldogging photo- 

 graphs. Such an episode rarely occurs, when it does, to get to 

 that end of the arena, focus one's camera, snap it and — get away 

 with it is not the easiest combination to work. So when the 

 plucky bulldogger suddenly kicked the steer in the stomach and 

 with a grunt it charged on me, I folded my camera and softly 

 stole away — quickly too, rolling under the low arena fence, com- 

 prising a top rail and a board, while the steer went over the top 

 and turned again for a second charge, then I rolled back again. 

 Swish ! went the rope of the "hazer" and the film, and conse- 

 quently this picture was saved from being lightning struck. 



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