CHAPTER 3AS CHARLEY stood there with Dan, a sudden worry about Dapple Gray flashed into his mind. He thought: How far in this direction did Blue Streak and Dapple Gray run? That quicksand is dangerous for horses as well as cows and calves—especially for colts that don’t understand it.
“Dan,” he asked, “do you think Dapple Gray and Blue Streak might get caught like that old cow and her calf?”
Dan said: “There’s hardly a chance of that, Charley. That old mare is as smart as a whip. She might step in quicksand with one front foot but she’d lunge back in a hurry. And that Dapple Gray colt is smart, too. He likely knows enough already to keep behind his old mammy when she goes to water. That grizzly will never get old Blue Streak like he did the cow. He’ll never get that old mare unless she t
