Behind him followed his anxious mother, her head swinging from side to side.
Near the fire the horse stopped.

The two "bull-doggers" immediately pounced upon the victim.

It was promptly flopped over on its right side.

One knelt on its head and twisted back its foreleg in a sort of hammer-lock; the other seized one hind foot, pressed his boot heel against the other hind leg close to the body, and sat down behind the animal.

Thus the calf was unable to struggle.