The Scalp Hunters : Or, Romantic Adventures in Northern Mexico 2
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Garey then galloped forward — keeping on the trail — ^while Rube struck out again to the open prairie, and advanced in a line pa- rallel to it. Having ridden a distance of two or three miles, Garey slackened his pace, and put the mustang to a slow walk. A mile farther on he again halted, and held his horse at rest, in the beaten path ! Eube now came up, and spread the three blankets lengthways along the ground, and leading westward from the trail. Garey dismounted ; and led the animal gently on... the blankets. As its feet rested on two at a time, each, VOL. II. H 146 THE SCALP-HUNTERS. as it became tlie rearmost, was taken up, and spread again in front ; and this was repeated, until they had got the mustang some fifty- lengths of himself out into the prairie. The movement was executed with an adroitness equal to that which characterized the feat of Sir Walter Raleigh. Garey now took up the blankets, and re- mounting commenced riding slowly back by the foot of the mountain ; while Rube returned to the trail, and placed a third arrow at the point where the mustang had parted from it.
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