I contemplated him a bit ruefully, wondering if the hard-headed Knowlton had made a good bargain in saddling us with this.
By eight in the morning I was under way to a certain livery and feed stable that had been recommended and found that no progress had yet been made with saddling my chosen horse--or even with the grooming of the angular-looking brute.
Directly he came back with another pony, a sad-eyed, gentle-appearing little beast, and commencedsaddling and bridling the two.
Here, as he was saddling the animal, he was accosted, much to his disgust, by the proprietor.
As the ranch foreman was saddling up with several of his men in the corral to give chase to the fugitive the boss strolled in and touched him on the arm.
Next morning, when the men were saddling up in the paddock after breakfast, Ess Lincoln came out to wish them good morning.
She looked curiously at Steve, though, on the Monday morning when she went out to see the men saddling up.
I got hold of my horse long before the troop horses came in, and, saddling him up, galloped back alone to help the fellows with the waggons.
But I was fairly well pleased to have driven her off, and lost no time in loosening my horse's hobbles and saddling him again.
Sulkily men were saddling and preparing for the road.
No, Nina; but as I am also going to leave the rancho, after saddling your horse, I saddled mine.
That night, after all his companions were asleep, Joaquin crept quietly out of his quarters, and, after saddling his horse, rode toward the mountains.
One of the grooms was busy in the stables saddling Captain Arundel's horse, and in the mean time the young man went out alone upon the sunny terrace to deliberate upon Mary's letter.
See that there's no time lost in saddling the chesnut.
The Natal native cavalry did not bivouac with the remainder of the patrol, but were allowed to post themselves and lie down without off-saddling at a point indicated to their commander, Captain Cochrane, by Colonel Buller.
In the foreground were the sturdy troopers of Marter's squadron grouped in picturesque disorder as the process of saddling went on.
The wiry bay horse had been caught by this time, and Sam Rowntree was saddling it, by degrees, for the animal was obviously fresh and touchy.
Most of them had set forth without further preparation than the saddling of their horses, and shouldering their guns; and hunger now called them home.
She even assisted her lord in thesaddling of his red-bay steed, and encouraged him in the pursuit of the assassin.
While he wassaddling his horse--which he did for himself--he was all the time talking, as if angry.
Coffee was consumed in quantities that only Troopers know how to master; and then, in the midst of the darkness and flood, feeding, saddling and loading of ox carts was accomplished.
Sunday morning was cool, but cloudy--and as the last detail of City Troopers were packing and saddling their horses, they heard the voice of a priest conducting early mass in the tiny cathedral close by.
I approached the camp in anything but an enviable mood, and was just off-saddling when the two leaders returned.
Whilst we were saddling up the field-cornet and his companion of the night before arrived.
Saddling Silvertail she rode into Red Gulch with her friends.
Connie hurriedly turned the chuck wagon over to Cookie, and saddling Silvertail, set off in pursuit of the boy and girl.
Lefty and Alkali, resplendent in bright colored shirts and silver-trimmed sombreros, were saddling up their broncos ready to start for Red Gulch.
Presently the cowboy arose, and saddling a fresh pony, rode out to relieve Alkali.
Breakfast was soon over, and just as the men were saddling up, Jack Danvers and Vicente, who had been on the last relief of the night herd, came trotting into camp.
The saddling and packing of the horses took but a short time, and after the animals had been turned out, and were feeding on the flat in front of the house, the men went up to say good-bye.
Five minutes pass, and no signal comes from the saddling paddock that it is all right.
At length the stick was almost filled with little triangular marks, and Bridger, saddling his horse, led another by a long lariat, and set off for a certain towering peak in the mountains.
Saddling up his broncho, he started out over the plain accompanied by a Mexican named Leal, who was the “boss” of a neighboring ranch.
They were freed of their bonds, and after a battle during which nearly every member of the party had been more or less mauled by the spirited beasts, the horse hunters succeeded in saddling and bridling Satan and the Angel.
Tom Parry's mouth was stretched in a grin as he got busy saddling the ponies and urging the sleepy burros to their feet.
If the bitting and saddling are right, a touch with the whip given behind the girth will generally prove effective.
I got me a terrible toothache," Allen volunteered to several punchers, as he was saddlingthe roan.
Outside, while he was saddling his horses, he explained.
Blinky and Pan's father were also saddling their mounts.
A hot breakfast acted favorably upon their mental and physical make-ups, and some brisk action in catching and saddling horses brought them back to normal.
Saddling up promptly, he once more took the road, glad to leave behind Gurran and all its belongings.
Saddling up at the stable, he walked towards the outer sliprails, intending to avoid the dismounting at that rude substitute for a gate, about which he had often rallied Mark.
M'Nab was saddling a horse with nervous hands that could scarcely draw a buckle.
Whilst saddling the horses this morning the natives again came up, and were anxious to know if they might be permitted to visit the camp after we were gone; that of course I had no objection to.
I'll write a line to the commanding officer while you are saddling the horse.
Karl sternly insisted upon keeping all the servants together, he himself shouldering his carbine, not knowing why, and saddling a horse to tie it up again in the stable.
