So She Started To Rub Him Off - Doing It With Thought And In
The Most Scientific Way.
She first went to the corner of our house,
then tried the other corner of that end, and so
She went on, rubbing
up against every object she saw - house, tree, and fence - even going up
the steps at the post trader's. That I thought very smart, for the bit
was put in her mouth there, and she might have hoped to find some kind
friend who would take it out.
It required almost two hours of the hardest kind of riding to conquer
the horse, and to teach her that just as long as she held her head up
and behaved herself generally, the bit would not hurt her. She finally
gave in, and is once more a tractable beast, and I have ridden her
twice, but with the Spanish bit. She is a nervous animal and will
always be frisky. It has leaked out that the morning she bucked so
viciously, a cat had been thrown upon her back at the corral by a
playful soldier, just before she had been led up. Kelly did not like
to tell this of a comrade. It was most fortunate that I had decided
not to ride at that time, for a pitch over a horse's head with a skirt
to catch on the pommel is a performance I am not seeking. And Bettie
had been such a dear horse all the time, her single foot and run both
so swift and easy.
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