It was an old trick, but well done, and the spectators cheered heartily.
After a few casts of almost equal brilliancy, Mose leaped to the ground with the rope in his hand, and while Kintuck looked on curiously, he began a series of movements which one of Delmar's Mexicans had taught him.

With the noose spread wide he kept it whirling in the air as if it were a hoop.

He threw it into the air and sprang through it, he lowered it to the ground, and leaping into it, flung it far above his head.

In his hand this inert thing developed snakelike action.

It took on loops and scallops and retained them, apparently in defiance of all known laws of physics--controlled and governed by the easy, almost imperceptible motions of his steel-like wrist.
"Forty-five dollars more to the good," said Mose grimly as the decision came in his favor.
"See here--going to take all the prizes ?" asked one of the judges.
"So long as you keep to my line of business," replied he.
The races came next.