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The spur starred hi, the brute's head swung round and snapped at the boy's leg Pedro wrenched the head back in ti, and presently to fence-rowing

The dust flew in clouds It wrapped the but the wicked ears in front of him His throat became a li wakefulness The hot sun baked his bare neck and head, the while Teddy rocketed into the sky and pounded into the earth

Neither rider nor mount had mercy The quirt went back and forth like a piston-rod, and the outlaw, in screa fury, leaped and tossed like a small boat in a tremendous sea of cross-currents

"It's sure hell-for-leather That hawss can tie himself in more knots than any that was ever foaled," co puncher in a scarlet kerchief

"Pedro is a straight-up rider, but he ain't got it in hier again proudly "Hawsses is like men Some of 'em can't be broke; you can only kill them Teddy's one of them kind"

Dick differed, but did not say so

"Look at hi That hawss is a devil, I tell you He's got every hawss-trick there is, and all of 'em worked up to a co caround his rider's knee till the torture of the pain had distracted his attention Once ly stub nose, and the yellow teeth fastened in the leather chaps with a vicious snap that did not entirely

The boy, with a cry of pain and terror, slipped to the ground, his nerve completely shaken The sorrel lashed out with his hind feet, and missed his head by a hairbreadth Pedro turned to run, stumbled, and went down

The outlaas upon hi with sharp chiseled forefeet at the prostrate roan, a kind of sobbingMexican who had just ridden up flung hih he kneas too late

"Pedro's done for," cried one

And so he would have been but for the watchfulness and alertness of one ainst the fence He had been prepared to see the boy weaken, and had anticipated it in his forward leap The furious animal had risen to drive hoht the bridle, and dragged him sideways This unexpected intervention dazed the ani to the saddle and dug his heels into the bleeding sides