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THE BUCKING BRONCO.

APRODUCT OF NATURE, NOT OF EDUCATION.

Did you ever see a bucking circus horse? Emphatically no! Why not? Simply because if he were a bucker he would not only be utterly useless, but positively dangerous in the ring. The horse is naturally an exceedingly timid and suspicious animal, and in breaking him even to harness and saddle use the trainer must keep these traits constantly in mind. Consider the limited repertory and even the best trained circus horse of any school. He can be taught to do something surprising and pleasing tricks, but there is to him a danger line beyond which neither cajolery nor force can induce him to go. He can no more be taught to "buck" than can a kangeroo to play on a key bugle. No animal can be taught to injure or kill itself, and least of all the horse ; the instinct of self-preservarion forbids, and no trainer can overcome that power. It would be equally preposterous to assume that any amount of compensation could induce any man in the possession of his senses to train an animal expressly to injure him. There is not a day in the season but that from one to half a dozen cowboys are laid up in hospital as a result of their battles royal with the bucking broncos, while every one of them daily receives maulings, shake-ups and brusies that would invalid men of less rugged physique and Spartan endurance.
Like every other unique frontier, national and international feature with Buffalo Bill's Wild West, the bucking broncos are genuine, from start to finish. They are natural, irreclaimable fighters, and their savage and reckless efforts to throw their riders cannot be corrected. They may be temporarily conquered after a prolonged and often dangerous struggle, requiring extraordinary agility, skill and courage on the part of their riders, but with every effort to mount comes a renewal of the contest between stubbornness and instinct on the one side and brains and nerve on the other, and in it the nobler