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By law I dare not shoot the horse. Vultures are always in attendance at the public slaughter- house in Recife, they are never molested. The natives up-country are capital horsemen, mounted on active, clever ponies or galloways. When they collect the 38 Reminiscences of an Engineer. bullocks that have been out on the prairies till three years old, they are very wild, but the man on horseback can run them down ; he is encased in leather, his fantail leather cap reaches to his shoulders (a good de...al like those the coal heavers in Lon- don wear), his coat is leather, as are his leggings. The bullock runs away as hard as he can, man and horse follow and where the bullock leads through bushes or brushwood man and horse follow through the same holes, the man lying flat on the horse, the bushes scratching on his strong leather suit ; the chase continues till the bullock shows symptoms of tiring, the horse closing up till the man gets hold of the tail, he works his hand upwards towards the tail root while they go along at a full gallop ; by a sudden jerk upwards the man throws the bullock on its head, he is off his horse in a twinkling, puts one foreleg over the horn and lashes it there, the horse quietly looking on close by.
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