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Show Woodworth/19 like they do _on __cowboy__ shows. But I .knew yqu_ weren' t drinking beer back there, but only pretending, so I tossed my head and snorted, some more. "Easy, girl," you said. You cut off a piece of willow branch, and pulled all the buds off it. This was going to_be your whip, you said, and we had to go round up the cattle now._ You untied me from the tree, and said, "Gidde up", so I sjtarted running again. This time, you pulled and pulled, making me go right and left, and yelled, "Get along there, doggies", and you whistled and cracked the willow branch like it was a whip. You made, me go right up against one of those prickly bushes because you jsaid you had to flush them doggies out of the brush. Then we. ran, and ran some more. I was getting tired, Jake, but I didn't say so. You were still yelling, and I was afraid that if I said I was tired, you wquld_go_back to staring at the pond, and wouldn't play with me_. Then you started cracking the whip at me telling me, "Gidde up. Faster girl, faster. We've got to get them doggies by nightfall." I tried to run fast again, but I hurt all over. You hit, me twice_ with the whip and it hurt, but I thought it was a mistake, so I didn't stop. I just wanted the game to be fun. But then you hit me in the legs with it, and it got caught between my legs. I fell down hard on my elbow so that it felt numb an<i_my whole arm hurt. You yelled at me, "Up, girl, up,_l__ut I knew this time you were talking to the horse. I hurt, and I had ruined your game, and I cried. You looked at my elbow, and said ij_yas a 1 1 right. But I knew that, I was just afraid that you were made at me, so I kept crying. Didn't you know that? Then you said that you didn't mean to trip me. But I still thought you wouldn't play with me any more, so I kept crying. Finally, |