That is, he volplaned, banked as much as he thought wise, and flattened out and yelled, "_I'm a rider of the sky!_" just as he had planned.
It happened that no one heard him, though Johnny did not know that.
Horses and men tilted heads comically and stared up at the great, swooping thing that came buzzing like a monstrous bumblebee that has learned to stutter.

Then the horses squatted cowering away from it, and scattered like drops of water when a stone is thrown into a pond.
Johnny did not see any more of it, for Johnny was busy.

Which was a pity, for the horse of Tex bolted a hundred yards and began to pitch so terrifically that Tex was catapulted from the saddle and had to walk home with a sprained ankle.

Little Curley's horse took to the hills, and little Curley did not return in time for his dinner.

Aleck and Bill Hayden went careening away toward the north, and one of the two strangers went so far west that he got lost.