. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. THE BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN ! THE FARM f COWBOYS AND GAUCHOS. The gaucho of the pampas is the counterpart of our cowboy of the plains and the- boundary rider of the Australian '' back blocks,'' :iml lie is in many ways quite as attractive a character as either of his brothers. His worst fault seems to be bis extreme carelessness in regard to the lives of those around him, but as he is equally careless of his own this cannot logi- cally be held against him. As a handler of stock he is possibly the peer of a Queensland drover, but is certainly not to be mentioned i
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. THE BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN ! THE FARM f COWBOYS AND GAUCHOS. The gaucho of the pampas is the counterpart of our cowboy of the plains and the- boundary rider of the Australian '' back blocks,'' :iml lie is in many ways quite as attractive a character as either of his brothers. His worst fault seems to be bis extreme carelessness in regard to the lives of those around him, but as he is equally careless of his own this cannot logi- cally be held against him. As a handler of stock he is possibly the peer of a Queensland drover, but is certainly not to be mentioned in the same breath with a Texas, Arizona or Montana cow- boy, nor with the best of Mexican vaqueros, writes a correspondent of the Los Angeles Times. I had arrived at this conclusion in my own mind from the first time I had seen what were said to be expert gau- chos working out at a roundup; hence I was the more pleased when, not long ago, a bunch of half a dozen Texas cow- boys came to this country on an exhi- bition tour and demonstrated to the satisfaction of everybody that, both in method and execution, in the hand- ling of cattle and horses the North American is far superior to the South American. I say demonstrated to the satisfac- tion of everybody; as a matter of fact it was to the extreme dissatisfaction of every one but the Anglo-Saxons. The average Argentinian is quite lacking in anything resembling a sporting instinct, and he took it very hard when he saw his representatives so completely out- classed in a kind of work he had fondly imagined in his ignorance that they were supreme. At no branch of their work did the cowboys not make the gauehos appear fairly ludicrous in comparison. In roping and tying, and at breaking and riding untamed steers, horses and mules, the work of the Ameri- cans was neat and expeditious; that of the Argentinians and Uruguayans clumsy and slow. A cowboy would rope and tie a steer in from thirty to forty seconds so deft- ly that it could be
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