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Title: The boy travellers in Australasia : adventures of two youths in a journey to the Sandwich, Marquesas, Society, Samoan and Feejee islands, and through the colonies of New Zealand, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania, and South Australia
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Knox, Thomas Wallace, 1835-1896 Harper & Brothers. pbl
Subjects: Voyages and travels Adventure and adventurers Tutors and tutoring Friendship Sailing Sailors Animals Natural history
Publisher: New York : Harper & Brothers
Contributing Library: School of Theology, Boston University
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston University

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THE MILKIXG-YARD. After the horse had been saddled the new chum tried to mounthim. He got safely into the saddle, but hardly was he seated beforethe beast began to buck, as we call it in America, or buck-jump, asit is designated here. The horse brought his head and all his feettogether, arched his back till it resembled a section of the dome of achurch, and then jumped up, down, sidewise, forward, backward, and inevery other direction in very rapid succession. The man was a goodrider, and managed to stick until the horse lay down and tried to rollover him, when he slid out of the saddle and gave up. Then one of the old hands tried the horse, which repeat?ed theperformance, but not so successiully, as the rider suddenly pulled the 368 THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN AUSTRALASIA.
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COMING IN FROM PASTURE. animars head up and prevented his falhng to the ground. Practisedriders sometimes show tlieir sl^ill by putting a silver coin the size of ahalf-dollar between each thigh and the saddle, and retaining it therein spite of all the plunging and bucking of the animal.* One of themen gravelytold us he had seen a man thrown twenty feet into theair by a bucking horse, and then come down astride the saddle in exact-ly the right position. Another said he had seen a horse swell himselfsuddenly, so as to burst the girths of the saddle; the saddle and theman on it then went fully ten feet into the air, and came down on thehorse all right and in order, ^¥e had intended to tell them about theremarkable riding of Buffalo Bill and his cow-boys, but after these twostories we had nothing to say. * la an article on Ranch Life in the Far West, in 17ie Century Magazine for Feb-ruary, 1888, Hon. Tlieodore Roosevelt says: The flash-riders, or horse-breakers, alwayscalled broncho-bust

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