THE COWARDLY COUGAR 



fit early the following morning. Inasmuch as 

 there appeared to be an unvoiced question as 

 to whether the contraption would carry a 

 horse, we set up the camera in the hope of 

 getting a good picture in case it wouldn't. 



This was a splendid setting for a moving- 

 picture calamity, for the cables extend from 

 one bleak, black wall to another, and seventy- 

 five feet below them the river rushes past, 

 breaking up a short distance downstream into 

 a picturesque cataract. 



When the first horse descended to the niche 

 which forms the cage landing and got a peek 

 at the river below, he shook his head, folded 

 his arms, crossed his feet, and sat down. 



"Women and children first," he plainly 

 said. 



You may not know that a horse's neck is of 

 elastic construction and will stretch like the 

 coil of lemon peel in that beverage from which 

 his neck derives its name ; but such is the case. 

 We stretched this animal's neck to the size of 

 a garden hose; we tied granny knots in his 

 tail, and then, more in sorrow than anger, we 

 took him in our arms, carried him into the 

 cage, tied him securely, and barred him in with 

 pieces of plank. This done, there followed a 



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