Faye Came Running, And
Finding A Tuft Of Grass And Solid Ground To Stand Upon, Pulled Pete By
The Bridle
And encouraged him until the poor beast finally struggled
out, his legs and stomach covered with the black slime up
To the flaps
of my saddle, so one can see what danger we were in. There was no way
of relieving the horse of my weight, as it was impossible for me to
jump and not get stuck in the mud myself. This is the only alkali hole
we have discovered here. It is screened by bunches of tall grass, and
I expect that many a time I have ridden within a few feet of it when
alone, and if my horse had happened to slip down on any one of these
times, we probably would have been sucked from the face of the earth,
and not one person to come to our assistance or to know what had
happened to us.
When Faye heard my call of distress, he threw the bridle back on
Bettie, and slipping the shotgun through the sling on the saddle,
hurried over to me, not giving Bettie much thought. The horse has
always shown the greatest disinclination to leaving Pete, but having
her own free will that time, she did the unexpected and trotted to a
herd of mules not far off, and as she went down a little hill the
precious shotgun slipped out of the sling to the ground, and the stock
broke!
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