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the horse he tiu-n around quick, right behind the bull. San Diego, he 

 grab that bull by tail and turn him up on his head so his horns stuck 

 in the giound and broke his neck. Those people hollering. Men 

 throw hats. Women waving shawls. Hollering, "This is best man 

 fighting steer!" The mules dragged the bull to the hole and threw 

 him in. 



King said, "Well, you win. Let's go upstairs. Pick out my 

 daughter, which way you like." They went upstairs. The girls 

 sitting 'round the room. San Diego picked out the center one. 

 "This is the one; I pick him up."^- The girl jump up, grab his 

 neck. "This be my husband!" King said, "Well, what your name?" 

 "My name's San Diego." "Well, you can't sleep with your wife 

 to-night. We going to have bronco busting to-morrow. If you can 

 lide all the hundi'ed horses before sundown, you can sleep with my 

 daughter." San Diego said, "Well, I guess I'll tell my father and 

 mother to go home. I'll stay here." "All right, you go tell them and 

 come back here." 



San Diego was ready to eat his supper. After supper he told king, 

 "Well, I go put my horse away somewhere." "All right" (king), 

 "here's a key. Take yom- horse and water and feed him and put 

 him in the barn. T\Tien you come back I give you a room to sleep in." 

 San Diego took his horse to a spring on south side king's house. The 

 spider she knows he was coming to water his horse, so she went to the 

 spring. When San Diego came Spider said, "Good evening, San 

 Diego." "Where are you?" "Right here in the grass. Don't step 

 on me! Can you tie your horse to that post and come with me to my 

 house? I want to talk to you a little while." "All right." And he 

 tied his horse to the post. They went to the south to the spider's 

 home. There was a little hole in the ground. Spider went in. San 

 Diego stopped. "Well, I can't go in it." "No; you just put one 

 foot on the hole, and it will be wide." San Diego stepped there, and 

 it got wide. There was a ladder there, and San Diego went down 

 inside. Spider bad lots young ones inside. They playing. Spider 

 told them to be quiet as San Diego was %asiting. 



"Well, San Diego, you be ready to-morrow to bust those broncos." 

 "Yes." "Well, I'll help you along. Here is some medicine. You 

 chew it up good. Go to-night to the corral and tell the two big ones 

 that you're going to put a rope on them in the morning. Then spit 

 a little medicine on the others." 



He took his horse and opened the corral. "Guatzi, caballo!" 

 (hello, horse!) They all nmnin' around. "Hello, San Diego. You 

 coming in here?" He called up the two big ones. "To-morrow 

 morning you be rough. Buck round four times. Then go north 



" This informant used the phrase " pick him up " as equivalent to " choose." For example, in referring 

 to some dish on a menu he said, " This one here; I pick him up." 



