July i6, 1910.] 
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HORSE MAGIC. 
Streaming with perspiration, half blinded by 
dust, and clinging with numbed but tenacious 
fingers to the end of a hard twist-rope, we were 
dragged round the corral for the second time. 
“Let go!” gasped my partner; “we shall have 
to snub him to the fence.” 
“And break his neck,” I suggested. “Not 
much! Stay with it!” And again we made a 
protesting, ignominious circle, the ugly red roan 
at the other end of the rope still untired, and 
still apparently reveling in the ease with which 
he could drag mere man in the dust. 
“Why,” he was probably asking himself, “why 
did his brethren capitulate to such feeble an¬ 
tagonists?” 
But the “feeble antagonists” were ‘fortified by 
the anger of humiliation, and for a brief 
moment held their victim captive with legs 
spread wide, nostrils distended, and head held 
obstinately low. 
We breathed again, and my partner com¬ 
menced to work his way gingerly up the rope 
toward the horse’s head in approved fashion 
In a flash it went up—and still up, and the fore 
feet with it striking frenziedly at the air and 
descending with a thud of obstinate defiance. 
Then, as though some fresh caprice had seized 
on its equine imagination, the horse turned, 
pirouetting on its hind legs like a ballet dancer, 
and dashed madly up the center of the corral, 
leaving us seated in the dust. 
“He’s a corker,” said my partner. 
“He’s the deuce,” said I. 
It was at this unfortunate moment that I be¬ 
came aware of our audience. He sat perched 
on the topmost rail of the corral, in a blue shirt 
and tattered angora chaparajos, smoking a 
cigarette and not even smiling. 
I nodded. So did he. 
“Had dinner?” I queried. 
He had not. 
“Put .your horses in,” said I, and we ad¬ 
journed to our fifteen-by-twenty house. 
In Europe our home would have been called 
a hut, a hovel, or a shanty; in the United States, 
a shack, a cabin, or a lean-to; in the Canadian 
West it was—as I have said—a house. Our 
guest spoke twice during the meal, a fair aver¬ 
age of table conversation for the Westerner; 
then we returned to the corral. The roan was 
amusing himslf by trailing the hard twist-rope 
at a gentle trot until it touched his heels, and 
then stopping to kick it viciously. 
“Say,” said the visitor, in a weary drawl, 
“you want this plug broke, don’t you?” 
We admitted that such had been our inten¬ 
tion, though he might not have thought it from 
our efforts. 
“Wall, I’ll fix him,” he said, slowly, and with¬ 
out the least assumption, “you go and sit down 
some place.” 
And we did. 
He stooped leisurely and picked up the rope’s 
end, carrying it round to the small of his back 
with his right hand and grasping it firmly in 
front of him with the left. Then he braced" his 
short, fur-clad legs and waited to be jerked into 
the dust. 
But there was a vital error somewhere in our 
calculations. The jerk came, but the man stood 
firm, and the horse swung involuntarily round 
to face his adversary. He, too, seemed to doubt 
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