I had no saddle, as mine had been left at the camp a mile distant, so taking the harness from Brigham, I mounted him bareback and started out after the game, being armed with my celebrated buffalo-killer, "Lucretia Borgia,"a newly-improved breech-loading needle gun, which I had obtained from the government.

Pa says nowadays the men and women who ride on bareback horses in the ring dress in regular evening costume, the women with low-necked dresses and long trains, and the men with swallow-tail coats and patent leather shoes, and they are as polite as dancing masters.

He said a frock coat was all right in society or among the crowned heads, but when you have to mingle with lions and elephants one minute that would snatch the tail off a coat and chew it and the next minute you are mixed up with a bunch of freaks or a lot of bareback riders or trapeze performers, you have got to compromise on a coat that will fit any climate, and not cause invidious remarks, whatever that is.

The Quaker got in the show because he owned a half inch of ground that its tents were on, and he stood right by the ring, and when the champion female rider was suspended in the air between two bareback horses, he leaned over too far inside the ring, and she kicked his hat clear up to the roof of the tent, and a female trapeze performer up there caught it and sat down on it on the trapeze.

Well, I thought there were Indians and ponies and squaws enough before the announcement was made, but in less than two hours more than a thousand ponies were being brought in, and we got our chariot racers, and our bareback hippodrome horses, and they were being led around and admired, and we all laughed at the little runts of Indian ponies, and the Indians got mad and backed their ponies.

He was haltered and he would carry Bull bareback.

He had shocked the schoolmaster by handing in an essay on "The Art of Bareback Riding.

" The imperious mandate was obeyed, and Andy raptly witnessed some bareback riding that made his heart quicken and his eyes flash with pleasure and admiration.

BACK XVITHROWING OFF THE MASK XVIISALLIE RIDES BAREBACK XVIIIAN AEROPLANE CHASE XIXDROPPING A "BOMB!" XXOVER LAND AND SEA XXIOVER THE BOUNDARY LINE XXIITHE HYDROPLANE RESCUE XXIIIBROUGHT

Joe Strong's promised wife was an accomplished bareback rider, as well as one of her fiancé's helpers in his mystery tricks.

She can ride any Bucephalus produced, and rather prefers to do so bareback.

I won't stop to harness upOld Betty's used to bein' rode bareback.

Once, when we were at home alone and talking about "endless work and aching bones," as we had heard grown-up folks complain of theirs, we were interrupted by a bareback rider who did not "tie up" under the live oak, but came to the shade of the white oak in front of us at the kitchen door.

They had seen Red Jim come battered and exhausted from his struggle with the stallion the day before, and now he sat upon the bareback of the chestnuta miracle!

Judith rode him bareback at a gallop down to the swimming pool and dived from his back into the yellow water shimmering hotly in the sun.

They knew well that to cut our straps would not prevent us from reaching Paris, since we could ride bareback, or, for that matter, could run it if need be.

He was advertised as "The Great Polish Champion Bareback Rider and Aerial Gymnast."

At last the "Celebrated Cypriot Brothers, the Universal Bareback Riders," came tripping gracefully into the ring, sprang lightly upon two black horses, and were off around the narrow circle like the wind, now together, now apart, performing all the while marvellous feats of strength and skill.

Twelve miles would be too far to ride bareback.

A great tent fly had been put up inside the ballroom and round the walls had been built rows of booths representing the various attractions of a circus side show, but these were now vacated and on the floor swarmed a shouting, laughing medley of youth and colourclowns, bearded ladies, acrobats, bareback riders, ringmasters, tattooed men and charioteers.

I'm going to ride him bareback, with a rope over his nose.

"Bareback he says he will ride that son of Satanas!"

And ridin' excitement down the trail of politics is like tryin' to ride white lightnin' bareback.

"He's a particular kind of cuss," I thought; "bareback would suit most people.

"The Signor Conte ride bareback on a donkey!