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All the running which it had put behind its long legs had not in the least broken the spirit of the silver stallion. As it felt the weight of a new rider mount its back, it swerved and pitched so that Bud Trainor nearly fell on his face on the ground which was spinning past beneath him. But he found both stirrups in a moment, and the grip of his strong knees established him in place He had the reins thrown to him by his friend, next, and with a new animal beneath him, Trainor was riding for his life.
And yet not that, either!