Government keeps a super-intender there and twelve men to save wracked people, and there is a herd of three hundred wild hosses kept there for food for saved crews that land there, when provision is short, or for super-intender to catch and break for use, as the case may be.
"Well, if he wants a new hoss, he mounts his folks on his tame hosses, and makes a dash into the herd, and runs a wild feller down, lugs him off to the stable-yard, and breaks him in, in no time.

A smart little hoss he is too, but he always has an _eye to natur'_ arterwards; _the change is too sudden_, and he'll off, if he gets a chance.
"Now that's the case with these country congregations, we know where.
The women and old tame men folk are, inside; the young wild boys and ontamed men folk are on the fences, outside a settin' on the top rail, a speculatin' on times or marriages, or markets, or what not, or a walkin' round and studyin' hoss flesh, or a talkin' of a swap to be completed of a Monday, or a leadin' off of two hosses on the sly of the old deacon's, takin' a lick of a half mile on a bye road, right slap a-head, and swearin' the hosses had got loose, and they was just a fetchin' of them back.
"'Whose side-saddle is this ?' "'Slim Sall Dowdie's.' "'Shift it on to the deacon's beast, and put his on to her'n and tie the two critters together by the tail.

This is old Mother Pitcher's waggon; her hoss kicks like a grasshopper.

Lengthen the breechin', and when aunty starts, he'll make all fly agin into shavin's, like a plane.

Who is that a comin' along full split there a horseback ?' "'It's old Booby's son, Tom.