Each time he picked himself up and earnestly resumed the effort.

The rowels were now catching in the long hair of his chaps.
He worked on, directed and cheered by the patient Baird, while the two camera men, with curiously strained faces, recorded his failures.

Baird had given strict orders that other members of the company should remain at a distance during the spur lessons, but now he seemed to believe that a few other people might encourage the learner.

Merton was directed to run to his old mother who, bucket at her side and mop in hand, knelt on the ground at a little distance.

He was also directed to run toward the Montague girl, now in frontier attire of fringed buckskin.