Coaly-Bay, the Outlaw Horse 
and though Coaly-bay was easily worth fifty dol- 
lars, he sold him for twenty-five. The new owner 
= felt he had a bargain, but after being ridden half a 
Aa = mile Coaly-bay went lame. The rider got off to 
a) wor 4 £ examine the foot, whereupon Coaly-bay broke away 
a 3g and galloped back to his old pasture. Here he was 
es 3 caught, and the new owner, being neither gentle 
WY f J nor sweet, applied spur without mercy, so that the 
( i vi next twenty miles was covered in less than two hours 
My S and no sign of lameness appeared. 
Now they were at the ranch of this new owner. 
Coaly-bay was led from the door of the house to the 
pasture, limping all the way, and then turned out. 
He limped over to the other horses. On one side 
of the pasture was the garden of a neighbor. 
This man was very proud of his fine vegetables and 
had put a six-foot fence around the place. Yet the 
very night after Coaly-bay arrived, certain of the 
horses got into the garden somehow and did a great 
deal of damage. But they leaped out before day- 
light and no one saw them. 
The gardener was furious, but the ranchman 
stoutly maintained that it must have been some 
other horses, since his were behind a six-foot fence. 
Next night it happened again. The ranchman 
went out very early and saw all his horses in the 
pasture, with Coaly-bay behind them. His lame- 
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