He also taught me how to throw the lasso, which, though it was a difficult thing to learn, I finally became, quite skillful in.

He knew that the Indians choke them with the noose round the neck until they fall down exhausted and covered with foam, when they creep up, fix the hobbles, and the line in the lower jaw, and then loosen the lasso to let the horse breathe, and resume its plungings till it is almost subdued, when they gradually draw near and breathe into its nostrils.

By the time he is four years old there is scarcely a colt in all the Argentine that he will not fearlessly mount; at six, he whirls a miniature lasso around the horns of every goat or ram he meets.

He is already a perfect Gaucho; can wield the lasso, and the bolas, and the knife; is a fearless ginete, a consummate horseman.

The weight of the animal dragged me forward and, had I not taken a half hitch round a dead snag, would have lifted me off my feet or pulled the lasso from my hands.

" Emett ran up the rock, coiled his lasso and cast the noose.

Having expressed this not unreasonable protest, he untied the lasso that Emett had made fast to a small sapling.

Sometimes the scene changed, and it was the dreamer that was flying, while Sandford, shod with swiftness, pursued him, swinging a lasso; and as often as the fierce hunter whirled the deadly coil, Fletcher awoke with a suffocating sensation, and a cold sweat trickling from his forehead.

He shakes off his lethargy, takes his lasso, his game-bag.

While he tied this lasso securely Jones proceeded to rope the dangerous front paws.

For it was really round that loose end that the foe would probably fling the lasso of his charge; it was here that death might soon be present upon every side.

" He gathered up his lasso and strode off the bench.

Jones grabbed the lasso, at the same time calling for me to stop the hounds.

Bellowing, Jones grasped the lasso and pulled.

Jones pounced upon him and loosed the lasso around his neck.

He had brought my lasso, and he handed it to me with the significant remark that I would soon have need of it.

Jones calmly gathered himself up, rearranged his lasso, took his long stick, and proceeded to mount the piñon again.

He remembers his lasso; he puts one end of it into Marimonda's hand.

He rode a deep-treed Mexican saddle, with housings of leather, grotesquely stamped: upon the pommel hung, neatly coiled, a lasso of beautifully braided rawhide.

" Jim had only time to aid me in running my lasso under the collar of Don, Sounder, Jude and one of the pups.

Two or three horsemen single out an animal upon which to practise it, and secure a lasso about its horns.

I secured a precarious hold on one hind paw and straightened my lasso.

The Indians who use the lasso, generally keep the lead, to strive to throw the noose over either the man or horse they are pursuing.

Near the tent a dozen men with lassos arranged themselves in two parallel lines, while twenty more, with a thong of sealskin two or three hundred yards in length, encircled a portion of the great herd, and with shouts and waving lassos began driving it through the narrow gantlet.

"Well, I tried making a lasso of caribou skin.