Frank Gee Patchin
Published: 2014-07-21
Total Pages: 102
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"Oh, let me get up. Let me ride him for two minutes, Walter."Walter Perkins brought his pony to a slow stop and glanced down hesitatingly into the pleading blue eyes of the freckle-faced boy at his side."Please! I'll only ride him up to the end of the block and back, and I won't go fast, either. Let me show you how I can ride him," urged Tad Butler, with a note of insistence in his voice."If I thought you wouldn't fall off——""I fall off?" sniffed Tad, contemptuously. "I'd like to see the pony that could bounce me off his back. Huh! Guess I know how to ride better than that. Say, Chunky, remember the time when the men from Texas had those ponies here—brought them here to sell?"Chunky—the third boy of the group—nodded vigorously."And didn't I ride a broncho that never had had a saddle on his back but once in his life? Say, did I get thrown then?"