You try it yourself, next time you ride him.

So I've cultivated that faculty of his, this last month.
"And besides, I've got him trained to dodge a rope every time.

Had Diego go out with me and try to lasso me, you know.

I had one devil of a time with the Injun, too, to make him disrespectful enough to throw a rope at me.

But Surry took to it like a she-bear to honey, and he's got so he can gauge distances to a hair, now, and dodge it every pass.