The way Pronto was hurt come off like this.

Buster Jack rode out to where we was brandin' an' jumped his hoss over a fence into the pasture.

He hed a rope an' he got to chasin' some hosses over thar.

One was Pronto, an' the son-of-a-gun somehow did git the noose over Pronto's head.

But he couldn't hold it, or didn't want to, fer Pronto broke loose an' jumped the fence.