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The Rebel
rertin to something her father had
been saying only the day before sbout
uatraotnblo horses going more kindly
under a woman‘: hand. and how. if you
woman's voice and
d do-
lsrniination you would have indeed the
model horsernsn. -
“There's Just a chance.” She hurried
to her ,room and changed her dress for
cat with the mustcrers.
, and picking up a
he ran. she
darted across the
among the darkening buddsh-bushes to
the stocxyar
V IE big-boned chestnut horse stood in
the yard with his head down. He
had been confined within these forbid-
ding rail fences for many hours. and he
was ry and lli-hurnored. In L d m
way,he realized that w man. his
arch-enemy, who had shut him up here
without food or water: and he feared,
snd was ready to resent with tooth or
heel. further indignities. lie heard I.
light step approaching the yard: imme-
diately h s on the alert, When he
an‘ in the dim light a. slight ngure,
bridle in hand, stoop and come under
the sllparails. he was uncertain whether
to be
spprolched him
sign of fear and held the bridle up to
him. Now. The Rebel had only nnce in
his lifetime been approached without
fear or indecision. and that was in the
days when lleil Mick, who feared noth-
ing in heaven or earth. had given him
his first harsh lessons in obedience, This
Red Mick's confident and almost care<
less wsy 0 "coming up to him. He was
surprised. and he forgot to be angry. '
< Malsie was a. brave girl, and of the
ordinary station horse she had no fear:
but no one knew better than she‘ the
he s
killed his man with a blow of his quick
lorefoot, so, the she was 1 apparently
careless, in reality she was watchful
and wary to A degree.
into obedience, and with
before, and the horse stood quietly while
she slivped the bit in place and buckled
the throatlas .
Altho she had won one move in the
gain the girl knew that the contest
. was scarcely be n. She felt strangely
small and helpless beside the great bulk
e stood above her
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himself be ridden ns well?
With a firm stein but a. hand that
trembled a, little on the reins, M.-iisie
led the big horse to the fence. She was
determined to saddle him inside the yard
for fear that when he felt the drst pinch
of the girth he should plunge and pull
away from e ’
mother. Holding the bridle with one
hand. shalifted from the fence herrlrull
little saddle. a. specially constructed,
nnything ut the quietest of horses; but
llaisie knew that if she could ride The
size crooned
voice, and a horse s
still. with his head turned towards her.
Evidently he did not connect (n his mind
this fairy-light toy with the huge, un.
wieldy knee-padded saddle which the
breaker had been wont to buckle on his
his ‘with trebied girth: and 2. ring-
aurcingle, which cut him nearly in two.
Even the pulling-up of the light glrths
did not disturb his equanimity. Ho
neither shrank nor plunged, mesmerized,
as it seemed. by that sweet. low voica.
Encouraged by his quietness. Maisis
Duiied down the sliprails and led the
horse out of the yard: and now it re-
quired all her nerve and all-the urgency
of the occasion to brace her for the
crucial test. “fould he let her mount,
or, mad when he felt her weight upon
his back. would he buck and lling her
from him on that iron ground-perhaps
cripple or kill her? She shuddered to
think that she might be caught up in
the stirrup and kicked to death. by those
re was no one to
to
t
her to her final effort. Her mother was
in danger. and what was her own dan-
ger in comparison?
‘LETTING down her near-side stirrup
toaconvenient height for mounting
she climbed cautiously into tbessatldle.
The chestnut stood like a rock while
e vulled up the stirrup again to its
proper height, then, handling his mouth
as lightly as tho were a butterfly‘:
wings, she urged him to wal forward.
On the lighted veran do of the house
figures moving, and
c r ham aiiedw"Liaisiai
liliii-s-lei" The horse paddock gate was
open. the men galloping the bus firs
had left it so to save time, as all the
horses were away. She Walked The
Rebel. thru, and then, speaking sooth-
ingly to him. she raised herself in her
stlrrups and started him into n canter.
She remembered that Red Mick, the
breaker, had told her four years ago
that The Rebel was 3 determined Puller
and bad to hold, but tonight he went as
arching his
Mile alter mile he cnntered steadily
on, scarcely aware, as it seemed, of the
light weight on his back. bound by the
sl>eli of the soft voice and the caress of
the light hand as it-lay upon his neck.
Soon the w its foam began to show upon
his shoulder. Rebel was fat and
soft and in no condition for hard work,
and the black sweat ran in channels
d n his forearm. Foam gathered on
his snaiiile-bit, and he tossed his head
uneasily; ut always he went on w
tlreless stride.
beauty!"
any horse halt so good before. They
reached the tell-mils gate. and The Rebel
wheeled round to the latch of it B
cleverly as a boys‘ pony: he had not for-
gotten Red liiick’s teaching.
'1‘ , red and splendid
isie's
h it. She was already
nearly hs.l -way on her journey, the
horse was ouiet and docile. and covering
stride.
send the
riding of n. noted huckiuniper that even
the finest riders of the back country
dared not mount. With renewed confi-
dence she drew her whip smartly down
the shoulder of the sweating chestnut.
A few more miles at this pace and he
would have forgotten all about bucking:
she would conquer him as Red Mick had
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AME horse on he Was. the ion: Wm"
knee the drew
in couple at hundred yards at this have
her fear for her mother’: safety made
her urge him again to A Quicker speed,
and The Rebel. tho brestillng heavily,
.LEDGER'
gathered himself into a. center as she
touched him with her heel.
little mob of
811690 that had been camned near the
road started up and went rustling ihru
at
:r
m
is squeal of ra e the great
horse came out of the trance into which
her courage and soi’t.voice had thrown
him. and only remembered that one of his
hated enemies was on his back, and must
be thrown from.lt if he was to recover
his freedom. , ,
snatching the reins from the girl's
slender hands he dropped his head be-
more than enough, for your lllaisie: with
a little scream she was hurled roughly
from the saddle, and thrown heavily
upon her back in the road. .
And now the horse. partially fired the
lie was. became like .1 mail thing. Turn-
ing off the road he went bucking and
Plunging thru the rlzirkness. the ‘ttlc
white saddle flnshiril: iihostily above him.
Maisie. lying hurt and frightened in the
road. could hear the niyail boughs crack-
ng as he das od thru them; then the
beat of his hoofs grew fainter. and the
bush became strangely. weirdly still.
that she could not move. She was suf<
ferlng axcrucinting pain: but even this
ecame as nothing before the thought
that she had failed in iier object. and
that the last chance of bringing help to
her mother was gone. She shouted and
coo-eed, but the silent bush seemed to
have no help to give her.
- . .
The fire on the boundary was subdued
long before midnight. an tirml
bushmen were riding slowly homewanl.
Just. -where the bush-track joined the
lulItlI'l‘Oa.rX Albert pulled up his mare.
“ re's 9. cooeee, Bass!” The Boss and
the others pulled up. “it is, by gadl
some one in trouble!" And putting spurs
to wiici-iery he gnlloped up the road in
the direction of the sound.
It took poor Maisie but a. few moments
to sob out her story to her father; and
in a few more one man was riding hot-
foot to town for the doctor, while an-
other raced on to the station to tell of
Mnisie'eI rescue and to harness his horse
to 4 light trap to bring her home.
is
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and the happenings of that daring night
became little more than the memory of
a fzvered dream. The little white saddle
was found torn and broken in the mynll
scrub. and
wire fencer-into which.
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