JIM JONES, THE COWBOY
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"I said, be careful. You don't want to sink through to China, do you?"
"Not much I ton't," was the answer. "Oh!"
Hans let out a loud cry of alarm, and with good reason. His horse had struck a sink-hole, as they are called on the plains, and gone down to his knees. He made such a plunge that poor Hans was thrown over his head, to land full length in an oozy, sticky bog.
"Stop!" cried Dick, as soon as he saw this accident. "Don't go any further, fellows, it's dangerous!"
"Hellup! safe me!" roared Hans, trying in vain to extricate himself from the oozy bog, while his horse did the same. "Hellup, oder I peen drowned in der mud alretty!"
