These Blizzards Are So Fierce And Wholly
Blinding, It Is Unsafe To Move A Step If Caught Out In One On The
Plains, And The Troops Probably Lost Their Bearings As Soon As The
Storm Struck Them.
It was almost dark when we got in the stage to go on, and I thought it
rather queer that the driver should have asked us to go to the corral,
instead of his driving around to the ranch for us.
Very soon we were
seated, but we did not start, and there seemed to be something wrong,
judging by the way the stage was being jerked, and one could feel,
too, that the brake was on. One by one those men got out, and just as
the last one stepped down on one side the heads of two cream-colored
horses appeared at the open door on the other side, their big troubled
eyes looking straight at me.
During my life on the frontier I have seen enough of native horses to
know that when a pair of excited mustang leaders try to get inside a
stage, it is time for one to get out, so I got out! One of those men
passengers instantly called to me, "You stay in there!" I asked,
"Why?" "Because it is perfectly safe," said a second man. I was very
indignant at being spoken to in this way and turned my back to them.
The driver got the leaders in position, and then looking around, said
to me that when the balky wheelers once started they would run up the
hill "like the devil," and I would surely be left unless I was inside
the stage.
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