A MUSTANG AND A BUCKJUMPER.
•* TW ponjT,, i? a mustang .and buckjumper,'* whispered' a friendly cow-boy in; the ofF ear of a verdant youth from the .East,, who was bidding .briskly on a vicious looking piece of horseflesh in .Texas. ' » i . ../, •_ . ; < Being,,as well versed .in the nomenclature of horse'points 1 as ißalaam's beast' was supposed to be in the dialect oi the White River Utes, he went another V. blind and became the possessor of the 'animal. " If he is a buck jumper and a mustang he is worth the money," remarked the J' roung man 'with an I-know-all about-it 6ok, as the cow-boy with difficulty placed him in the saddle. ,•', .' J "" Theiporiy bucked/and'tne broad prairie .(tijok the rider fondly to its bosom. \ __' i /i' t 'l,What,do .^ou mean by felling inei that this horse is a mustang and a buckjumper, when he is the most infernal goas ha^please-brute inTgaas P l exclaimed; the tenderfoot, as he untangled himself,: brushed out the knots in his legs and limped towards the kindly manipulator of f cattle:' 1 " What' He has just done is called bucking." ' | 11 That is bucking, is it ? Well, what' j the-—r--~does ,he do when'he mustangs ?" |
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Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4410, 21 February 1883, Page 4
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198A MUSTANG AND A BUCKJUMPER. Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4410, 21 February 1883, Page 4
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