Hunting and trapping stories; a book for boys (1903) (14802410913)

Catching Wild Horses
Identifier: huntingtrappings00pric (find matches)
Title: Hunting and trapping stories; a book for boys
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: (Price, J. P. Hyde), 1874- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Hunting
Publisher: New York, McLoughlin bro's
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation



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bells andshooting off pistols. Buffalo Bills show has traveled all over the world showing how theAmerican Indians and cowboys ride wild horses. When the show was inEngland a gentleman exhibited a pony upon which a saddle had never beenput. Two grooms had lost their lives in attempting to break the little beast.The owner jokingly dared a cowboy to try his hand at taming the pony.The cowboy was not dismayed; he quietly took his saddle, bridle, lasso andspurs, and went to work. In less than half an hour he had saddled theuntamable one and ridden it around the field. Every boy has seen the wonderful fire-engine horses, now common inevery American city. How they stand unhitched, and the instant the alarmrings spring into their places and in a second or two are harnessed up andoff to the fire with a two ton engine ratding behind them. The race horse seems to be a distinct creature, long legged, lean andlanky, but with muscles of iron. This horse has been slowly envolved and WT^m^^^^^sSiSWM
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WOLVES The name of Wolf inspires genuine terror, and not without reasonfor it stands for all that is swift, merciless and cruel. In every wolf-infestedcountry throughout the world the people tell of a long list of deaths anddisasters charged to these creatures. One night a Russian officer, stationed in a lonely fort, right in the midstof the pine woods, received orders to come, without a moments delay, toheadquarters, a journey of about fifteen miles. A pair of the best horseswere immediately harnessed to a sleigh, and the officer and his driver were off.It was a bitterly cold, but not a dark, night and the horses were able to picktheir way without any difficulty. The sleigh moved like lightning across thefrozen snow and the miles were soon being reeled off. Suddenly the horses threw their ears back and snorted, and the nextinstant broke into a furious gallop. The officer sat bolt upright in amoment. He listened attentively for a minute without hearing anything, andhad almost persuade