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Title: The hunter and the trapper in North America ; or, Romantic adventures in field and forest. From the French of Bénédict Révoil
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Révoil, Bénédict Henry, 1816-1882 Adams, W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport), 1828-1891
Subjects: Hunting Game and game-birds
Publisher: London, New York : T. Nelson and Sons
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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amed the encampmentof his tribe, and then he was so changed, with a wrinkledbrow and snow-white hair, that no person could recognizehim. Another of my companions related several anecdotes ofa certain jet-black horse, which had haunted the plains ofArkansas for many years, and successfully defied all theefibrts of the hunters to capture him. His renown ex-tended from east to west, and north to south. He seemedto be a phantom-steed—unapproachable, indescribable—whose feet were lighter than those of a gazelle, and whosefigure was as graceful as the neck of a lovely woman,mantled in tresses of ebon darkness. One of the Pawneestold us that, on a certain evening, before the moon hadrisen, he contrived, by stealthily creeping along theground, to approach within a few paces of the enchantedanimal, and hurl his lasso at him. The noble beast had,at first, appeared resigned to his captivity, and gallopedside by side with his captor, guiding his steps by that of A NEW AND TERRIBLE PEGASUS. 39
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a new and TEKRIBLE PEGASUS. the Redskins mare, who proceeded in the direction ofthe camp. But suddenly, on the first watch-fire comingin sight, the horse made a supreme efibrt; he rid himselfof the lasso, wheeled round, and with the swiftness oflightning plunged into the obscurity of the night. The horses captured by the Pawnees became, next 40 HOW THE TAMELESS IS TAMED. morning, the object of very particular attention. Ithink it will interest my readers if I relate to themhere the means which the Redskins employed to tamethem. In the first place, they fasten to the horsesback a light load of two pieces of wood, with the viewof teaching him a lesson of servitude. The haughtyindependence of the animal is immediately aroused; but,after an unequal conflict, in which the Indian suppliedthe place of strength by cunning, the poor horse wascompelled to feel the inutility of further resistance, and,throwing himself on the ground, mutely acknowledgedhis defeat. An actor on the stage, portrayin

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