The Red Mustang
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Stoddard William Osborn. The Red Mustang
Chapter I. THE HORSE AND HIS RIDER
Chapter II. HOW CAL EVANS RODE FOR HELP
Chapter III. THE BAND OF KAH-GO-MISH
Chapter IV. THE GARRISON OF SANTA LUCIA
Chapter V. CAL AND THE CAVALRY AND THE RED MUSTANG
Chapter VI. THE PERIL OF SANTA LUCIA
Chapter VII. BOUND FOR THE BORDER
Chapter VIII. GETTING READY TO CHASE KAH-GO-MISH
Chapter IX. THE HACIENDA OF SANTA LUCIA
Chapter X. THE TARGET ON THE ROCK
Chapter XI. THE STORY OF A LOG
Chapter XII. PING AND THE COUGAR
Chapter XIII. THE RETURN OF KAH-GO-MISH
Chapter XIV. THE FOUNTAIN IN THE DESERT
Chapter XV. LOST IN THE CHAPARRAL
Chapter XVI. AN INVASION OF TWO REPUBLICS
Chapter XVII. HOW PING AND TAH-NU-NU GOT TO THE SPRING
Chapter XVIII. HOW DICK PLAYED SENTINEL
Chapter XIX. BAD NEWS FOR WAH-WAH-O-BE
Chapter XX. HOW CAL STARTED FOR MEXICO
Chapter XXI. THE MANITOU OF COLD SPRING
Chapter XXII. ACROSS THE DESERT BY NIGHT
Chapter XXIII. AT THE RANCH AND IN THE CHAPARRAL
Chapter XXIV. CAL'S NIGHT UNDER A TREE
Chapter XXV. A STRANGE LETTER FROM MEXICO
Chapter XXVI. CAL'S VISITORS AND HIS BREAKFAST
Chapter XXVII. THE POST-BOY THAT GOT AWAY
Chapter XXVIII. THE MYSTERY OF THE STICKS
Chapter XXIX. HOW WOULD YOU LIKE FIRE?
Chapter XXX. THE MANITOU WATER
Chapter XXXI. PULL STICK AND THE HURRICANE
Chapter XXXII. UNDER A FALLEN TREE
Chapter XXXIII. LEAVING THE BAD-MEDICINE CAMP
Chapter XXXIV. TAH-NU-NU'S DISAPPOINTMENT
Chapter XXXV. HAND TO HAND BY FIRELIGHT
Chapter XXXVI. HOW CAL WAS LEFT ALL ALONE
Chapter XXXVII. RESCUED BY THE RED MUSTANG
Chapter XXXVIII. HOW THEY ALL REACHED SANTA LUCIA
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The excited boy on the red mustang was not allowed to use his own judgment altogether as to the right place for riding out from the forest. Hundreds and hundreds of cows and bulls and oxen took that important matter into their own hoofs. They had not been so sensitive as the horses, and had not been whipped or shouted at. They, therefore, had not been stampeded so quickly, but they went wild enough as soon as the craze took them. They may have been wondering whether a norther or a prairie-fire or a travelling earthquake were after Sam and Cal and the horses when over the grassy rolls came that squad of yelling red-men. The whoops were an awful noise to hear, and one very thin, respectable old cow set off at once. In another moment there were tossing horns and anxious bellowing in all directions, while some half-grown calves threw up their heels and followed the cow. A wiry, vicious-looking ox, with only one horn, punched with it the ribs of his next neighbor. That example spread like wildfire; and something said by the widest-horned, longest-legged, deepest-throated old bull may have really meant:
"Now – ow, every fellow bellow and run like all ruin – uin – uin!"
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"Yes, mother," said Cal, "but he can do it."
"Leave your rifle," she added. "You'll not need it, and it's an extra weight."
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