Medlicot caught the horse by the rein, and violently backed the brute in among the embers.

The animal plunged and reared, getting his head loose, and at last came down, he and his rider together.

In the mean time Joe Brownbie, seeing this, rode up behind the sugar planter, and struck him violently with his cudgel over the shoulder.

Medlicot sank nearly to the ground, but at once recovered himself.

He knew that some bone on the left side of his body was broken; but he could still fight with his right hand, and he did fight.
Boscobel and Georgie Brownbie both attempted to ride over Harry together, and might have succeeded had not Jacko ingeniously inserted the burning branch of gum-tree with which he had been working under the belly of the horse on which Boscobel was riding.