Two leaps, from back to back among the herd, and he was across the thickest of danger, down once more on the ground, and dodging past the outskirts of the bellowing cows.

Over the nearer fence he vaulted and disappeared into the smoke which vomitted from the mouth of the burning barn.
"God A'mighty," groaned Haw-Haw Langley, "can he get the hoss out ?" "It ain't possible," answered Mac Strann.

"All hosses goes mad when they gets in a fire--even when they sees a fire.

Look at them fools over yonder in the corral." Indeed, in the horse-corral a score of frantic animals were attempting to leap the high rails in the direction of the burning barn.

Their stamping and snorting came volleying up the hill to the watchers.
"All hosses goes mad," concluded Mac Strann, "an' Barry'll get tramped under the feet of his own hoss even if he gets to the stall--which he won't.