Coaly-Bay, the Outlaw Horse 
: HIS DESTINED END 
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This was Bear country, and the hunters resolved 
to end his dangerous pranks and make him useful 
for once. They dared not catch him, it was not 
cn really safe to go near him, but two of the guides 
* drove him to a distant glade where Bears abounded. 
aA thrill of pity came over me as I saw that beautiful 
; untamable creature going away with his imitation 
limp. 
“ Ain’t you coming along?” called the guide. 
“No, I don’t want to see him die,” was the 
answer. Then as the tossing head was disap- 
pearing I called: ‘Say, fellows, I wish you would 
bring me that mane and tail when you come 
back!” 
Fifteen minutes later a distant rifle crack was 
eard, and in my mind’s eye I saw that proud head 
and those superb limbs, robbed of their sustaining 
indomitable spirit, falling flat and limp—to suffer 
the unsightly end of fleshly things. Poor Coaly- 
bay; he would not bear the yoke. Rebellious to 
( the end, he had fought against the fate of all his 
kind. It seemed to me the spirit of an Eagle or a 
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e ¢ z i. Wolf it was that dwelt behind those full bright eyes 
alld —that ordered all his wayward life. 
= 8 I tried to put the tragic finish out of mind, and 
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