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Back in
the barn they found another smaller saddle
almost exactly like Mobers‘! The saddle was
natural rough leather, the stirrups were made
out of polished silver, but the saddle horn,
the seat, and the leather tassles were dyed
a deep, blood red that almost matched Pepper
perfectly. "Perfect!" said Julio. "Yep,
this looks like it will fit just fine," said
G. Simeon put in "Y tiene la ‘Cool’ y
‘FFOI’ too!" (and it has Cool and FFOI
on it too) Even Simeon was beginning to speak
Spanglish!
"We will never be able to forget this place
for sure, and we even have souvenirs with the name
on it!" exclaimed G. "Souvenirs?" asked
Simeon. "Recuerdos," said G, (reminders)
Julio tried to cinch up the saddle on Pepper but
he really didn’t know how, so G showed him. Pepper
put her ears back, so J had to talk to her and tell
her she was a big girl now, and this is what big
horses wear. G made sure the cinch wasn’t too tight. "Naw," said
G. They took the cinch off and traded it for a sheepskin
one. And while they were at it, they picked up bridles
to match and breast collars for each of the horses.
Peppers’ breast collar was that same deep, dark red
with a brass heart in the center of the chest. Mober's
was natural color leather with a brass heart too.
They also picked up the now finished halter for ‘Cool,’
the Assjack.
Back outside again they saw the taxi driver just
pulling up with his pink oxen. G & J put
the bridles on the horses; there were no bits
in their mouths, just some fancy braided leather
work that went around their nose. The reins were
round and braided too. G put the new soft cinch
on Pepper and she liked that a lot better. Simeon
climbed in the taxi cart and sat by the ‘ole
kind beaver. I think they were old friends.
Julio said, "Ok, gotta go get the Cool,
now. Come on Granma!" "Well what on
earth do you need me for?" G said. Then
she laughed and went with Julio to get Cool with
the new halter. It just now dawned on Julio that
being she was a little tyke, maybe she didn’t
even know how to lead. Well now, he found out
right away. He crawled over the stall fence and
put the halter on all right. "Hey Granma,
we need a rope …. well, duh!" That was an
easy thing to find, and by now everyone in the
barn knew to send the bill to Simeon. G found
a fat soft, sheeps’ wool, gray lead rope and
took it to Julio. "Well, here goes," he
said.
He opened the stall gate and walked calmy out.
Cool followed calmly behind, with da Muff trying
to grab the rope and help lead her. All was well,
fine and dandy, until they got outside the barn,
where Cool decided to not be so cool. She started
bucking and kicking up and going round and round
Julio in circles. Then she sat down and wouldn't
budge. G grabbed her close up by the halter
and didn’t give her any slack.
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