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THE BUCKING BRONCO.
A PRODUC 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 onloy 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 of even the best trained circus horse of any school. He can be taught to do some surprisingly 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 kangaroo 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-preservation forbids, and no trainer can overcome that power. It would equally preposterous to assume that any amount of compensation could induce any man in the possession of his senses to train an animal expressingly 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 dialy receives maulings, shake-ups and bruises 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 extroadinary 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

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THE BUCKING BRONCO.
A PRODUC 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 onloy 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 of even the best trained circus horse of any school. He can be taught to do some surprisingly 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 kangaroo 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-preservation forbids, and no trainer can overcome that power. It would equally preposterous to assume that any amount of compensation could induce any man in the possession of his senses to train an animal expressingly 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 dialy receives maulings, shake-ups and bruises 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 extroadinary 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