Quotation from: The Little Lady of the Big House

Written by: Jack London


But Young Dick was no cool-head. His blood was hot. He had passion,
and fire, and male pride. Ready to cry from twenty hours in the
saddle, he learned to ignore the thousand aching creaks in his body
and with the stoic brag of silence to withstain from his blankets
until the hard-bitten punchers led the way. By the same token he
straddled the horse that was apportioned him, insisted on riding
night-herd, and knew no hint of uncertainty when it came to him to
turn the flank of a stampede with a flying slicker. He could take a
chance. It was his joy to take a chance. But at such times he never
failed of due respect for reality. He was well aware that men were
soft-shelled and cracked easily on hard rocks or under pounding hoofs.
And when he rejected a mount that tangled its legs in quick action and
stumbled, it was not because he feared to be cracked, but because,
when he took a chance on being cracked, he wanted, as he told John
Chisum himself, "an even break for his money."

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