Through the misty moonlight a coal-black horse, bearing a rider who once more awakens the clamoring echoes with his bugle, comes tearing at a mad gallop.
The clatter of a horse's iron-shod feet could be heard, telling that the rider was coming like the wind down the valley.
Harry, fingering his long staff in a rather awkward way, while his horse moved uneasily beneath him, not accustomed to a rider armed with such a weapon.
It was also calculated that if the rider did not maintain his pace, he would get a blow from the flour bag just at the back of his head, and bear about him the signs of his awkwardness to the great amusement of the lookers-on.
Rider and horse, friend, foe, in one red burial blent.
The rider was the same singular-looking dark-complexioned boy, who had overheard the exclamation of Aulus Fulvius, concerning young Arvina, uttered at the head of the street Argiletum.
When nearly two hundred had gone by a rider came in sight around the bend of the hill.
Without warning the girl's eyes lifted suddenly from the soft, brown hair so near, and met those of the rider above.
One horse in the rear fell down, but the rider was upon his feet in an instant; then they dismounted and led their horses, traveling along very slowly in Indian file.
As he spoke, the approaching rider left the main road and turned up the dimly marked trail toward the school-house.
The four corners are fastened down by broad leather straps, ornamented with silver or brass buckles, to enable the rider to wedge himself in, and the whole is bound around the horse’s belly with a broad band of leather or canvas.
The motion is so gentle that an experienced ridercan carry a cup of water for miles in his hand without spilling a drop.
If this last method be persisted in, at least let the rider take his feet out of the stirrups, before entering the water.
After being mounted a very few times, the ox goes pretty steadily; but it is long before he learns to carry a rider with ease to himself.
Drawing of horse, rider and gun as described above].
I'll take Billie Prince," decided the new rider at once.
The rider drew up, nodded a greeting to Wrayburn, and grinned with cool nonchalance at Webb.
The jolts jerked the riderforward and back like a jack-knife without a spring.
A rider had galloped forward and was dismounting close to the river.
They topped a hill and came face to face with a rider traveling town ward.
He was smiling over his shoulder at the next rider in line, a heavy-set, squat figure on a round-bellied pinto.
The sawed-off gun of Thursday covered the second rider carefully.
A horse stumbled and went down, flinging therider over its head.
This young rider had broken the first law of the cowpuncher, to be on the job in time of trouble and to stay there as long as he could back a horse.
A rider for the Flying V Y dropped in after they had eaten and bridled like a turkey cock at sight of Clanton.
The new rider for the Flying V Y outfit did not accept the judgment of Prince without confirming it.
I've got a new riderout from Kansas for his health.
His name, noble lord, is Adam Kerr of the Moat, but he is commonly called by his companions the Black Rider of Cheviot.
Seated firmly at the back, and guiding with the feet in front, the rider skims down precipitous slopes and round perilous corners with a rapidity that beats a horse's pace.
Besides, it is doubted whether Hercules could ride--he certainly had no horse of any fame; whereas Reksh excelled all horses as much as his rider did all men.
He was a surly brute of the Yorkshire breed; and when he had heard that I was an express rider from Major Ferguson, he was pleased to demand my papers.
At sight of us, or else because he would not take the water at full speed, the horse reared, pawed the air, and fell clumsily, carrying his skilless rider with him.
The creek was swollen and very deep, but the rider plunged into it and got safely across.
Turning he saw that a groom's horse had stumbled and pitched the riderinto deep water.
As the rider passes out of Carlstadt he crosses the railroad track, runs a few hundred yards until the road takes a sharp curve to the right northward, almost to the Passaic River.
At the junction of the roads in Franklin the rider should inquire for Bloomfield Avenue, which is the direct road to Pine Brook.
The rider should take the Fourteenth Street ferry from New York to Hoboken, and his first object then is to get to the Boulevard.
Immediately on leaving Singac and crossing the track the rider comes to cross roads.
The road to the Boulevard is direct from the ferry, with a sharp turn to the right a few minutes after leaving the ferry-house, where the railroad is crossed, and the rider then comes into the Boulevard.
The rider should not cross the bridge, but should turn sharp to the left and follow the car tracks through West Paterson Station to Little Falls.
Besides, I really believe the average woman would rather marry a mountain circuit-rider on three hundred a year than a man in easy circumstances in any other calling.
Suddenly Pole led his own horse round until the animal stood directly across the narrow road, rendering it impossible for the approaching rider to pass at the speed he was going.
The rider was scarcely out of sight when a pair of fine black horses drawing a buggy came into view.
So much do the northern and southern forests differ, that a fleet rider will traverse the latter with more ease than the woodman can the former.
But his horse kept on with unabated speed, and a minute after thundered up the slope, and he and his rider were beyond the reach of all their bullets.
Mickey O'Rooney gave a yell of defiance as he vanished from view, horse and rider unharmed by the scattering shots which followed them, even after they were lost to sight.
Donald, as he looked after the Witch Doctor, still close by, though receding from the spot where the three Broncho Rider Boys sat in their saddles.
The Broncho Rider Boys were deeply interested in everything, and Billie used his little kodak freely, in snapping off pictures that appealed to him as worth preserving.
The three Broncho Rider Boys stood there by the side of the slowly recovering border desperado, and stared at each other.
Yes, I'm opposed to violence of all kinds, except when it's necessary to teach a rascal like Braddon that the Broncho Rider Boys can take care of themselves, thank you.
After waiting some little time to see if the mysterious stranger would show himself again, and meeting with disappointment, the three Broncho Rider Boys determined to resume their journey.
Less than half an hour later the Broncho Rider Boys were returning to the copper mine by the same tortuous route which they had taken to reach the lofty place where the view had been worth all the trouble the journey had cost them.
It was naturally toward the make-believe showman and his ally that the anger of the Broncho Rider Boy was turned.
A murmur of voices followed, and then an almost womanish yell, for Lightning, the favorite, was out in front, and his rider leaned in the saddle with arm suspended and a quirt which never fell.
If a young horse shies once, though he may become a true traveler and a wise head, yet his rider remembers the first jump and is ever uneasy in the saddle.
She pours out her strength for her rider as a generous host pours out his wine!
The rider was Matlock and he seemed to be in a hurry.
In the field adjoining Grace saw, with an instantaneous recognition which sent the color from her cheeks, a rider engaged in corralling a pair of dusty pack-horses whose appearance betokened a long day's plodding.
The rider had not mentioned Douglass's participation in the mishap, and his presence was therefore a surprise to McVey, who was unaffectedly glad to see his best friend again.
My intrusion here was to acquaint you with the news that your brother, accompanied by your mother, will be here to-morrow night, a rider having just brought a telegram to that effect.
I forgot to say that Barton has already sent a rider over to the C Bar to put the boys wise to the gang that's going down there.
There were few, even in this land of reckless men, who cared to arouse the slumbering devil under the quiet demeanor of this gray-eyed range rider who killed first and argued afterward.
Freddie knowingly to a fair-faced young English girl who was watching the rider with a degree of interest rather distasteful to the stalwart guardsman.
He had seen that expression once before on the face of the wife of the dead sheepman when some one had told her of the finding of a C Bar rider with a load of buckshot through his heart some weeks after the assassination of her husband.
Even as her lips opened in reply, Grace saw Mrs. Brevoort's horse give a frantic kick at something entangling his legs, then leap affrightedly from side to side, while his rider screamed in terror.
The gallant gelding floundered ineffectually for a footing, fell directly in the path of the infuriated beast, and threw his rider over his head.
A rider was dispatched instantly to the nearest ranch, some two miles away, for a conveyance, returning quickly with a buckboard.
Also there will be the riding of bulls; and the prize for the most skillful rider will be a silver-mounted quirto of beautiful design.
You like it; you're a kind of a lone rider anyway.
So, charging this way and that; galloping wildly in pursuit of the man who seemed to be fleeing for his life, or wheeling to do battle with the rider who kept just so far in his rear, he was decoyed to the very outskirts of the camp.
He stood with his hands thrust deep into his pockets and regarded the rider glumly.
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