And kick Imp did! His heels shot out as he laid his ears farther
back on his head and he gave a shrill scream, as horses can when they
are angry.
"No you don't! Not this time!" cried Jim Mason, as he ran back to
the fence with Trouble. "And you must never go into the corral or
near horses again, Trouble! Do you hear?" and the foreman spoke to
Baby William as though very angry indeed. But he had to do this, for
the little fellow must learn not to go into danger.
"Don't ever go in there again!" said the foreman, as he set Trouble
down on the ground in a safe place.
"No, me not go," was the answer, and Baby William's lips quivered as
though he were going to cry.
"Well, that's all right, old man!" said the foreman in kind tones.
For he loved children and did not even like to hurt their feelings.
"I didn't mean to scare you."
But he had scared Trouble, or, rather the sudden catching up of the
little fellow and the pony's scream had frightened him, and Janet's
baby brother began to cry, hiding his head in her dress.
But, after all, that was the best thing to make Trouble remember
that he must not go in the corral, and he had soon forgotten his
tears and was laughing at the funny tricks Imp cut up as Jim Mason
tried to ride him.
The foreman, after he had carried Trouble safely out of the way,
went back in the corral and jumped on the bucking bronco's back.
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