. The chicago Record's war stories : by staff correspondents in the field ; copiously illustrated. ced atCapt. Stevens of the 5th, the post quarter-master, who had come to assist him, andshook his head. The regimental farrier thrustout his under lip and Maj. Dunn said: Nogood. So the rejected bay trotted off. The next horse was a flea-bitten roan,whose ribs showed through, and its rider wasa dirty little man with his chaps patchedand cobbled in a hundred places. The raw-hide was half curled off the tree of his sad-dle and his bridle had been so often repairedthat it was more buckskin string th
. The chicago Record's war stories : by staff correspondents in the field ; copiously illustrated. ced atCapt. Stevens of the 5th, the post quarter-master, who had come to assist him, andshook his head. The regimental farrier thrustout his under lip and Maj. Dunn said: Nogood. So the rejected bay trotted off. The next horse was a flea-bitten roan,whose ribs showed through, and its rider wasa dirty little man with his chaps patchedand cobbled in a hundred places. The raw-hide was half curled off the tree of his sad-dle and his bridle had been so often repairedthat it was more buckskin string than tannedleather. He wore no spurs and he had noneed to. The roan, straining at the bit, wasoff like a flash the instant the rein wasslackened, and the little man, his elbowsflapping, was round the course and back be-fore the man in the Mexican sombrero hadreached the sallyport. The roan was ac-cepted. Then came a chestnut ridden by aMexican. This one bucked half of the way,but made good time the other half and foundfavor in the eyes of the judges, and so it THE CHICAGO RECORDS WAR STORIES 149. COL. THEODORE ROOSEVELT IN THE ROUGH RIDER UNIFORM. 150 THE CHICAGO RECORDS WAR STORIES went through the afternoon, until at least fifty sound, mettlesome and speedy beasts were tied up in a row back of the quadrangle. ******* Two hundred and eighty men exclusive ofthose who were to attend to the pack trainwere in Rough Riders camp at Riversidepark by May 8, and, according to expertopinion, a hardier, handier lot never set footin stirrup. Standing in line before their extemporizedbarracks they did not show to advantage forthey were of all sizes and all shapes andtheir pose at attention would have madea drill sergeant rave, but they were the pickand the flower of the ranges for all walk had a sailor-like slouchinessabout it, but it was full of spring and ifmany of them were a trifle bowlegged theybad, they said, so much the better grip oftheir saddles. Their faces had a pink gl
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