After several of the steers had been roped, thrown, and tied, there
still remained in the arena a sullen and difficult brute, which was as
tricky as a rat, and the boys gave him up one at a time.
"Why don't you give the girls a chance at him?" shouted a cowgirl
derisively, from the seats.
"Any girl who wants to tackle him is at liberty to do so," Ted shouted
back through his megaphone.
Instantly three girls leaped into the arena, and borrowed ponies from
their cowboy acquaintances.
Ted motioned to Sophy Cozak, the pretty and buxom girl from the Bohemian
prairie, whom Bud had admired at the dance; she rode forward on Bud's
own particular horse, Ranger.
Sophy had several brothers who had taught her the cow business, and she
had few equals on the range.
As she rode out she was greeted with a round of applause from her
admirers. She gathered up her rope and sent the horse forward at an easy
lope toward the steer, which looked at her a moment and trotted off.
Sophy followed him, and made three casts of the rope, and every time the
brute dodged it, and the rope fell to the ground.
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