A Horse"s Tale

Цена 12.60 - 12.95 USD

EAN/UPC/ISBN Code 9780809533503

Брэнд Wildside Press

Автор


Страниц 108

Год выпуска 2003

I am Buffalo Bill"s horse. I have spent my life under his saddle -- with him in it, too, and he is good for two hundred pounds, without his clothes; and there is no telling how much he does weigh when he is out on the war-path and has his batteries belted on. He is over six feet, is young, hasn"t an ounce of waste flesh, is straight, graceful, springy in his motions, quick as a cat, and has a handsome face, and black hair dangling down on his shoulders, and is beautiful to look at; and nobody is braver than he is, and nobody is stronger, except myself. Yes, a person that doubts that he is fine to see should see him in his beaded buck-skins, on my back and his rifle peeping above his shoulder, chasing a hostile trail, with me going like the wind and his hair streaming out behind from the shelter of his broad slouch. Yes, he is a sight to look at then -- and I"m part of it myself. I am his favorite horse, out of dozens. Big as he is, I have carried him eighty-one miles between...