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and v/as showing out to some yoUng ladies, 

 boasting of killing butfalo, riding wild horses 

 and a great many things that he never did. 

 While he was telling them how well 

 he could ride, one of them said, ''La, 

 I wish you would ride one of Pa's horses. 

 He throws nearly everybody off that tries 

 to ride him." 



Johnson said he could ride anything, he 

 didn't care what it was, and some of 

 the men saddled the horse and brought 

 him out to Johnson By the time things 

 were in readiness for the show to begin, quite 

 a crowd of folks of all ages, sizes and sexes 

 had assembled to watch developments and to 

 see the fun, and the wonderful feats of horse- 

 manship. Johnson climbed into the saddle 

 and told them to let the horse go. They did 

 so, and he began to rear and plunge in a fear- 

 ful manner, and after a few jumps changed to 

 the old trick of bucking and kicking. All at 

 once he jumped suddenly and stiffly on his 

 fore legs, threw his head down to the ground 

 and kicked as higfh as he could. This was too 



