Suddenly it gave a loud bellow and rushed down
the slope.
CHAPTER XX
THE ROUND-UP
Bert and Nan were really too frightened to know what to do. If they
had been more used to the ways of the West, and had known more about
cattle and ranches, they would have at once run for their ponies and
have got on the backs of the little animals. Cattle in the West are so
used to seeing men on horse back that sometimes if they see them on
foot on the wide prairie, the cattle chase the men, thinking they are
a strange enemy.
Perhaps it was this way with the wild steer. At any rate, seeing Bert
and Nan gathering flowers down in the hollow of the hills, the steer,
with loud bellows, started down toward them. The two ponies were
eating grass near by, and Bert and Nan could easily have reached their
pets if they had thought of it.
But they were so frightened that they could not think. As for the
ponies, those little horses merely looked up. They saw the steer, but,
as they saw such animals every day, the ponies were not at all
interested.
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