She tried to wheel round, but, finding herself checked, reared up three or four times, and at last seemed to stand on her hind legs, almost overbalancing herself.
Halbert sat like a statue till he saw there was a real chance of her falling back on him; then he slipped his right foot quickly out of the stirrup, and stood with his left toe in the iron, balancing himself till she was quieter; then he once more threw his leg across the saddle, and regained his seat, laughing.
Jim clapped his hands; "By Jove, Sam, we must get some of these army men to teach us to ride, after all!" "We must do so," said Sam.

"If that had been you or I, Jim, with our rough clumsy hands, we should have had the mare back atop of us." "Indeed," said Alice, "you are a splendid rider, Mr.Halbert: but don't suppose, from Mr.Buckley's account of himself, that he can't ride well; I assure you we are all very proud of him.

He can sit some bucking horses which very few men will attempt to mount." "And that same bucking, Miss Brentwood," said Halbert, "is just what puzzles me utterly.

I got on a bucking horse in Sydney the other day, and had an ignominious tumble in the sale-yard, to everybody's great amusement." "We must give one another lessons, then, Mr.Halbert," said Sam;--"but I can see already, that you have a much finer hand than I." Soon after they got home, where the rest of the party were watching for them, wondering at their late absence.

Halbert was introduced to the Major by the Doctor, who said, "I deliver over to you a guest, a young conqueror from the Himalayas, and son of an old brother-warrior.