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warts and Slone had no established mode of catching wild
horses. The game had not developed fast enough for that. Every chase of
horse or drove was different; and once in many attempts they met with
success.
A favorite method originated by the Stewarts was to find a water-hole
frequented by the band of horses or the stallion wanted, and to build
round this hole a corral with an opening for the horses to get in. Then the
hunters would watch the trap at night [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and if the horses went in to drink,
a gate was closed across the opening. Another method of the Stewarts
was to trail a coveted horse up on a mesa or highland, places which sel-
dom had more than one trail of ascent and descent, and there block the
escape, and cut lines of cedars, into which the quarry was ran till
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captured. Still another method [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], discovered by accident, was to shoot a
horse lightly in the neck and sting him. This last [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], called creasing, was sel-
dom successful, and for that matter in any method ten times as many
horses were killed as captured.
Lin Slone helped the Stewarts in their own way, but he had no especial
liking for their tricks. Perhaps a few remarkable captures of remarkable
horses had spoiled Slone. He was always trying what the brothers
claimed to beyilai:
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