"Yates, what do you mean by letting him git up on that critter ?" he demanded, indignantly.
"Ain't that the bronco you wanted him to try ?" asked the other cowboy, innocently.
"No--an' you know it!" stormed Todd.

"Do you want him to break his neck?
Hi, Dave, jump down! You can't tame that beast, nohow!" "I--I'm all--ri--right!" jerked out Dave, between his teeth.

"Ke--keep away," he added, as Todd came closer, to lend his assistance.
"He's a bad one, boy--one o' the worst on the ranch.

Yates had no call to offer him to you." "Ke--keep away," was all Dave replied.

He could not say more, for the bronco claimed all his attention.
"Yates, if that boy is hurt, you'll have an account to settle with me," said Sid Todd, and shook his fist at the other cowboy.
"I--er--I was sure you wanted me to bring out that beast fer him," murmured Yates, uneasily.