"Stop the runaway pony!"
CHAPTER XIX
THE WILD STEER
Ponies can not run as fast as can horses, not being as large. But the
pony drawing the small cart into which the Bobbsey twins had climbed
seemed to go very swiftly indeed. Before Mr. and Mrs. Bobbsey and Dick
Weston, the foreman, could hurry outside the ranch house, the pony and
cart were quite a distance down the road which led over the prairies
to the distant cattle ranges.
"Oh, the children! What will happen to them?" cried Mrs. Bobbsey, as
she saw the twins being carried away.
"Perhaps Bert can get hold of the reins and stop the pony," said Mr.
Bobbsey, as he hurried along with his wife.
"If he can do that they'll be all right," said the foreman. "The pony
is a good one, and I never knew him to run away before. That shot must
have frightened him."
But whatever had caused the pony to run away, the little horse
certainly was going fast. Sitting in the cart, the Bobbsey twins had
been too frightened at first to know what was going on.
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