None of the stallions of my breed took me seriously, and I have never once felt true love.

I thought it was his job to ride herd on Carolyn June" "It is his job," Old Heck interrupted, "I don't understandsomething must have gone wrong," he added excitedly as the stallion with his double burden drew near.

But he continued to follow the scheme first laid down for his pursuit by clever Riley, and when they came to the wide-ranging stable he assigned the black stallion to a roomy box stall.

Not that Bull Hunter analyzed the stallion in any such fashion.

Regretfully he signalled to his own groom who stood apart in charge of a fine dark bay stallion from the Kirghiz Steppes.

At gray dawn he swung down from the back of the little stallion at the door of the Indian's hut.

Dunbar urged the stallion on with a yell; and swinging the quirt over his head, he brought it down with a stinging cut on the silky flanks of the great horse.

They all had tolerable stallions for their service, and seemed to live pleasantly enough, in their wild way.

He looks like an old surfeited Stallion after his leaping, dull as a Dormouse: see how he sinks; the wench has shot him between wind and water, and I hope sprung a leak.

That gave Alcatraz a second problemto fight the stallion without turning his back on the treacherous mare.

In short, d'Aurevilly was like a stallion among the geldings of the ultramontaine stables.

At dark they were on the edge of the Arroyo Grande and Captain Jack had closed the distance between them until less than a hundred yards was between the heels of the filly and the head of the stallion behind her.

She had a passion for horses, and had, as we say, the "cool" hand with them, for she would soothe a frightened stallion by rubbing his nose and whispering in his ear.

"I'll ride her"as he jerked the saddle from Captain Jack, turned the stallion into the corral, then started toward the bunk-house, while Carolyn June moved away in the direction of the back-yard gate"I'll ride her," he repeated, emphasizing strongly the last ten words, "to beat that Thunderbolt horse from over on th' Vermejo".

They glided away as though the horses of the cowpunchers were running fetlock deep in mud; they shot up the slope towards the distant stallion like six bright arrows.

As Captain Jack, followed by the bullets from the marshal's revolver, dashed madly down the street of Eagle Butte, instinctively the Ramblin' Kid had turned the stallion toward the hut of the old Navajo.

"That won a suit of triple mail at Dunismere joust, and wagered it 'gainst Black Ivo's roan stallion within Deepwold forest upon a time.