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Newspapers have published instances of 

 women who have managed to stay on 

 one through all his various and blood- 

 stirring antics ; but such cases are in 

 fact unknown outside of Buffalo Bill's 

 Wild West Show, and there the animals 

 have been taught to perform to order. 

 When the bronco bucks, he gives no 

 preliminary warning by harmless plung- 

 ing ; he simply throws his head down 

 between his knees, humps his back like 

 a cat, and proceeds to business. He 

 jumps into the air, coming down to one 

 side of where he started, with all four 

 feet bunched and legs stiffened, only to 

 bound into space again. An occasional 

 squeal adds to the general hilarity of 

 the scene, and the alacrity with which 

 that meek-looking mustang can land 

 and go into the air again would aston- 

 ish one not accustomed to the sight. 

 In riding a puller, his head must be 



