Coaly-Bay, the Outlaw Horse 
troubles began, for now his owner undertook to 
break him to ride. He was as tricky and vicious 
as he was handsome, and the first day’s experience 
was a terrible battle between the horse-trainer and 
the beautiful colt. 
But the man was skilful. He knew how to ap- 
ply his power, and all the wild plunging, bucking, 
rearing, and rolling of the wild one had no desir- 
able result. With all his strength the horse was 
hopelessly helpless in the hands of the skilful 
horseman, and Coaly-bay was so far mastered at 
length that a good rider could use him. But each 
time the saddle went on, he made a new fight. 
After a few months of this the colt seemed to realize 
that it was useless to resist, it simply won for him 
lashings and spurrings, so he pretended to reform. 
For a week he was ridden each day and not once did 
he buck, but on the last day he came home lame. 
His owner turned him out to pasture. Three 
days later he seemed all right; he was caught and 
saddled. He did not buck, but within five minutes 
he went lame as before. Again he was turned out 
to pasture, and after a week, saddled, only to go 
lame again. 
His owner did not know what to think, whether 
the horse really had a lame leg or was only sham- 
ming, but he took the first chance to get rid of him, 
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