Coaly—Bay, the Outlaw Horse 
ness seemed worse now instead of better. Ina few 
days, however, the horse was seen walking all 
right, so the ranchman’s son caught him and tried 
to ride him. But this seemed too good a chance 
to lose; all his old wickedness returned to the horse; 
the boy was bucked off at once and hurt. The 
ranchman himself now leaped into the saddle; 
Coaly-bay bucked for ten minutes, but finding he 
could not throw the man, he tried to crush his leg 
against a post, but the rider guarded himself well. 
Coaly-bay reared and threw himself backward; 
the rider slipped off, the horse fell, jarring heavily, 
and before he could rise the man was in the saddle 
again. The horse now ran away, plunging and 
bucking; he stopped short, but the rider did not go 
over his head, so Coaly-bay turned, seized the man’s 
' foot in his teeth, and but for heavy blows on the 
nose would have torn him dreadfully. It was quite 
' clear now that Coaly-bay was an “‘outlaw”—that 
is an incurably vicious horse. 
The saddle was jerked off, and he was driven, 
limping, into the pasture. 
The raids on the garden continued, and the two 
men began to quarrel over it. But to prove that 
his horses were not guilty the ranchman asked the 
gardener to sit up with him and watch. That 
night as the moon was brightly shining they saw, 
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AY , 
opal 
