The Bull not taken by the Horns.
It is do credit to a cowboy lo catch a bull by the horns, for he cannot be thrown by them, and is simply held ns a prisoner, but the skill m thiowing a la<=so is ho pitch tha noose in front of fin animil when he n gome; at full gallop, so that the next step he treads into it. The cowboy tried it on n bull while both of our ponies weie jumping along on a dead run. The old fellow wns going about as fast ns we were, but the fatal loop shot through the air at a tangent nnd fell, witfe open, just m front of him on tha ground. The left foic foot plunged squnie into tho circle, the rope was tightened with a sudden jerk and the steer rolled over in the dust, as cleverly caught a» anything I over snw. The bioncho, too, understood his part of the buMiicbs thorough!}-, for he'boic at the iij.'bt moment in the opposite diiection, else ho might have been thrown instead of the bull, to which he was much inferior in weight. — Clevtlanl Leader.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2099, 19 December 1885, Page 2 (Supplement)
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194The Bull not taken by the Horns. Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2099, 19 December 1885, Page 2 (Supplement)
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