understand. To know you are right 
and then go ahead is a pretty plan, but 
how to know? The animal did not 
stop or swerve from its course. We 
would surely collide. What was I to 
do% Oh, fora precedent! Evidently 
the mare was aware of one, for she 
wheeled to the right just in time to 
miss the oncoming heifer, and we 
raced alongside for a few seconds. I 
had so nearly parted company with my 
mount in the last manceuvre (centaurs 
would have an enormous advantage 
as cowboys) that I had lost all desire 
to help Van and only wanted to get 
away from that heifer, to make an hon- 
ourable dismount, and go somewhere 
by myself where a little brook babbled 
nothings, and the forget-me-nots pla- 
cidly slept. Rough riding and adven- 
tures of the Calamity Jane order tempt- 
ed me no more. 
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