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Then
drawing
the
piece
of
curved
iron
out
of
his
capacious
pocket
,
he
applied
it
to
a
hoof-print
conspicuously
outlined
in
the
turf
.
It
fitted
.
"
Fits
!
"
he
exclaimed
,
with
a
triumphant
gesticulation
,
"
Dog-goned
if
it
do
n't
!
"
"
Tight
as
the
skin
o
'
a
tick
!
"
he
continued
,
after
adjusting
the
broken
shoe
to
the
imperfect
hoof-print
,
and
taking
it
up
again
.
"
By
the
eturnal
!
that
ere
's
the
track
o
'
a
creetur
--
mayhap
a
murderer
!
"
A
herd
of
a
hundred
horses
--
or
three
times
the
number
--
pasturing
upon
a
prairie
,
although
a
spectacle
of
the
grandest
kind
furnished
by
the
animal
kingdom
,
is
not
one
that
would
strike
a
Texan
frontiersman
as
either
strange
,
or
curious
.
He
would
think
it
stranger
to
see
a
single
horse
in
the
same
situation
.
The
former
would
simply
be
followed
by
the
reflection
:
"
A
drove
of
mustangs
.
"
The
latter
conducts
to
a
different
train
of
thought
,
in
which
there
is
an
ambiguity
.
The
solitary
steed
might
be
one
of
two
things
:
either
an
exiled
stallion
,
kicked
out
of
his
own
cavallada
,
or
a
roadster
strayed
from
some
encampment
of
travellers
.
The
practised
eye
of
the
prairie-man
would
soon
decide
which
.
If
the
horse
browsed
with
a
bit
in
his
mouth
,
and
a
saddle
on
his
shoulders
,
there
would
be
no
ambiguity
--
only
the
conjecture
,
as
to
how
he
had
escaped
from
his
rider
.
If
the
rider
were
upon
his
back
,
and
the
horse
still
browsing
,
there
would
be
no
room
for
conjecture
--
only
the
reflection
,
that
the
former
must
be
a
lazy
thick-headed
fellow
,
not
to
alight
and
let
his
animal
graze
in
a
more
commodious
fashion
.
If
,
however
,
the
rider
,
instead
of
being
suspected
of
having
a
thick
head
,
was
seen
to
have
no
head
at
all
,
then
would
there
be
cue
for
a
thousand
conjectures
,
not
one
of
which
might
come
within
a
thousand
miles
of
the
truth
.
Such
a
horse
;
and
just
such
a
rider
,
were
seen
upon
the
prairies
of
South-Western
Texas
in
the
year
of
our
Lord
1850
something
.
