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ROWDY RIDES TO GLORY originally published in Rodeo Romance
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For Want of a Horse
Rowdy Horn stared gloomily at Cub's right hind leg and shook his head with regret.
"No use even thinkin' about it, jenny," he admitted ruefully to the girl he wanted
to marry. "Cub won't work at the Stock man's Show this year. Not with that leg!"
Jenny Welman nodded, faintly irritated. Something was al ways going wrong. "No,"
she agreed, "you can't ride him, and without a good roping horse you wouldn't have
a chance at first money, and without five thousand dollars-"
"I know! Without it we can't get married!" Rowdy ran his fingers through his dark,
curly hair. "Jenny, does that money make so much difference? Lots of folks I know
started with a darned sight less, and if I get a good calf crop this year we would
be all set."
"We've talked of this before," Jenny replied quietly. "If you want to marry me, you've
got to provide a home for me. I won't start like my mother did."
"She was pretty happy," Horn insisted stubbornly, "and your mother was a mighty fine
woman."
"True, but just the same, I want to be comfortable! I don't want to slave my youth
away trying to get ahead like she did." Suddenly, and excitedly, jenny caught his
arm. "Rowdy! I just happened to think. Why don't you see Bart Luby?"
"Luby?" Horn's mouth tightened. "What would I see him for?"
"Maybe he would let you borrow Tanglefoot to ride! He's going to ride Royboy, I know,
so why don't you ride over and ask him?"
"Ask a favor of Bart Luby?" Rowdy's eyes smoldered. "I will not! I'll let the rodeo
go to kingdom come, and the ranch too, before I'll go to him for help! Anyway, he'd
turn me down flat. He knows well enough that with Cub an' me out of the running he
is a cinch to win."
"Will it do any harm to ask?" Jenny insisted impatiently. "Why you imagine he holds
anything against you, I can't guess.
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