The Pacing: Mustang- 



In 'the most used of these trails the two men 

 set to work with shovels and digged a pit 15 

 feet long, 6 feet wide and 7 feet deep. It was 

 a hard twenty hours work for them as it had to 

 be completed between the Mustang'sdrinks, and 

 it began to be very damp work before it' was 

 finished. With poles, brush, and earth it was 

 then cleverly covered over and concealed. And 

 the men went to a distance and hid in pits 

 made for the purpose. 



About noon the Pacer came, alone now since 

 the capture of his band. The trail on the op- 

 posite side of the mud belt was little used, and 

 old Tom, by throwing some fresh rushes across 

 it, expected to make sure that the Stallion 

 would enter by the other, if indeed he should 

 by any caprice try to come by the unusual path. 

 What sleepless angel is it watches over and 

 cares for the wild animals ? In spite of all rea- 

 sons to take the usual path, the Pacer came 

 along the other. The suspicious-looking rushes 

 did not stop him; he walked calmly to the 

 water and drank. There was only one way 

 now to prevent utter failure ; when he lowered 

 his head for the second draft which horses al- 



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