[Skyrider by B. M. Bower]@TWC D-Link bookSkyrider CHAPTER NINE 11/21
After a little he permitted her to slip the bridle reins over his head, and to press the bit gently into his mouth.
She set the pan on the ground and so managed to tuck his stiff, brown ears under the headstall, and to pull out his forelock comfortably while he nosed the pan.
The bridge was too small for Jake, but Mary V thought it would do, since she was in a great hurry and the buckles would be stiff and hard to open.
The throat latch would not fasten where Tango always wore it, but went down three holes farther. Jake was bigger than she had thought. But she led him over to the shed door and adjusted the saddle blanket and, standing on her tip-toes, managed to heave her saddle into place. The cinch had to be let out too.
Mary V was trembling with impatience to be gone, now that she had two heinous sins loaded upon her conscience instead of one, but she knew better than to start off before her saddle was right.
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