Literary Magazine

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Everything was so quiet, I noticed he was breathing strongly and really fast like me, I also heard my heart beats. I made another step and really slowly I moved up my arm and touched him on the forehead. me that 5 seconds was like 5 because I heard something, minutes. it was the sound of some walking I knew that those He turned around and were from the horses. I saw all the group of horses started galloping again to that was a little bit far from catch them but they did it as him and he didn’t want to be well and much faster, I knew to far so he started galloping I wouldn’t catch them and extremely fast. I heard the also because when they ran sound of his hoofs galloping they pushed up much dust in the dry ground and that so I couldn’t see anything s t r o n g s o u n d I h e a r d and mainly because they started being weaker and were too fast. So I started weaker as long as he got far slow down the horse. “Easy away. Soon and easily he boy, easy” I said quietly to reached the group of horses. my horse so he could calm a I turned around to my horse little bit because he was direction with surprise and really agitated, I also gave anger. Surprise because the him little slaps in his neck baby horse was perfect and like a price for a job well angry because I let them go. done. I walked to my horse and took him of the reins with a I saw the beautiful baby hand, then I stepped on the horse in the middle of the stirrup and I pushed my self trail, I stopped my horse with the other leg and easily and got of him and taking I was up in my horse’s back. the rope off the saddle. I got I gave my horse little kicks closer to the horse he didn’t with my heels and he start m o ve a t a l l , s o I ke p t trotting I kick him a little bit walking in his direction, h a r d e r a n d h e s t a r t e d then he moved, he didn’t galloping, I was going to run but he moved in my follow the horses and I did direction like if he would it! wanted me to take him. He gets closer and closer to me. I started following the I felt really like happy footprint of the horses that because he was going in my was stocked on the ground. direction but I was kind of Then it passed around 10 scared, because he could minutes and I stopped

kick me or something like that. Ever ything was so quiet, I noticed he was breathing strong ly and really fast like me, I also heard my heart beats. I made another step and really slowly I moved up my arm and touch him in the forehead, when he had a little more confidence I put the rope that I had it in my other hand into his neck and tie it up in the saddle. I get up into my horse back and I start walking and the baby horse did it too, he was following us. For a long time we walked, the baby horse was really calmed. We get to the ranch and I took the baby horse to the paddock. I train him and put him a name, Serious, now he is an excellent horse, the one I always ride and he is my best friend!


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