The Cave in the Mountain / A Sequel to In the Pecos Country

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again in the same way. When he became certain that a second person was coming up, he grasped his

me in climbing up the rope. He frequently paused as if resting, and this fact le

y of Fred became so great that he drew himself forward, and, p

you? Speak, if it is, or

I'm spaachless, wid not even th

nd all question, and the words were hardly uttere

against the fist of Mickey O'Rooney, recovered, and seeing his foe in the act of vanishing, gave a whoop of alarm to his companions,

o ye," called out the Irishman, who at this moment

is wife," gasped Mickey, speaking shortly and rapidly, as best he could, whil

and shook it for the third or fourth time, smiling at the same ti

he Donnybrook jig, but I make the engagement wid ye, and the thing is down for p

es

t me to meself, I felt there was no knowing how long I'd have to stay behind, so I knock

could not fail to be interesting in both cases. When they had finished, Mickey O'Rooney had about recovered fr

tried to cut me out. The first thing to larn is whether the hoss that I lift some distance away is still there cropping the grass. If he

need of goin

y n

he Apaches are right over

et's take a loo

showed their training by throwing up their heads the instant the two came in sight, and several gave utterance to whinneys, no doubt with the purpose of apprising their masters of the ap

ting me father's family, and it's hard to make up your mind which i

feet, and stood in all his graceful and beautiful proportion

run as well as any of 'em. I'll tell you what we'll do, me laddy. We'll both mount thi

ours isn'

aan us, as the gals used to sa

d yours, why, we can turn one of these loose, and we s

he Irishman. "Pick yours out, and

ll you

efore long, and then they will strike straight for these animals, and, if they happen to

hey going

e lasso hanging do

that!" exclaimed the affrighted

e oversight, when Mickey ca

y might never find the way out, and would starve to death, and it would always grieve me to think I had starved

o perish, as they were likely to do if left without the means of escape; "but, if we leave the rope hang

gh of climbing up there for a while. They've gone off on a hunt through the cavern for the place where you crawled out, and they

t. There were no saddles upon any of the horses, and nothing but the rudest kind of bridle, consisting of a thong of twisted bull's hide, and reaching away to some limb or tree, so as to give the animal plenty of gr

ang was rather under size, so that he was able to vault upon him from the ground without difficulty. After patting him on t

ged and shook his head in a vicious way, but he toned down somewhat after a time, a

een watching his young friend closely, "if ye practice aich day in those thirty years; but I want you to observe

ane of his mustang, and at one bound bestrode him, catching the lariat

to trying to throw me. Talk about Rarey breaking that old horse Cruiser, that u

ent up almost perpendicularly in the air, and with such suddenness that Mick

e of his boasting friend, who was not a little aston

I was a little mistook. Such accidents will happen now and then, and

the back of this horse. He seems scared and mad, and his

ye, the weight of us b

lively style, that his spirit became contagious, and the four, who were yet upon the ground, now came t

on his back, and, as he was really a good horseman, and used vigorous means, he speedily managed to bring him under control. Turning his head toward the ridge, they