He was himself a cowboy, and indeed worked in my neighbourhood and so I knew him well.

He was a big, strong, husky negro, with a neck and shoulders like a bull's.

You cannot hurt a nigger any way.

Well, this man's unique performance was to ride after a steer, the bigger and wilder the better, and on getting up to him to jump off his horse, seize the steer by a horn and the muzzle, then stoop down and grip the animal's upper lip with his teeth, turn his hands loose, and so by means of his powerful jaws and neck alone throw down and topple the steer over.

The negro took many chances, and often the huge steer would fall on him in such a way as would have broken the neck or ribs of any ordinary white man.