Pauline Frederick : on and off the stage (1940)

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90 Pauline Frederick gracefully in the western saddle. Then, just what happened she never knew, but she found herself sitting on the ground. She was too surprised and too startled for a moment to get up. Looking up at " Buddy," she found him grinning down at her and thoroughly enjoying the spectacle. That made her so angry she could have cried. Only a few minutes before she had been telling herself that riding was very simple and wondering why people made such a fuss about it, and now she knew! Scrambling up from the ground and gathering as much of her dignity as was left, she turned angrily upon the cowboy, and berated him for laughing at her and declared that she never wanted to see him or a horse again. He could take the horse home! She would walk! In fact, she had already started on foot towards home, but Buddy followed after her with the two horses, saying coaxingly: " Aw now miss, don't take on like that. Get up again in the middle of him and have another try." When she had begun to walk she had found it wasn't only her dignity that was hurt! She would dearly have liked to rub a certain very numb portion! She walked on a little farther, soreness and her stiff riding boots making progress rather difficult. Buddy still followed and coaxed. There was nothing she hated so much as to be laughed at and called " a quitter," and she knew that was what would happen if she returned home walking. Presently she began to see the funny side of things. So she turned around and looked at Buddy and then began to laugh, and before long they were both laughing heartily. Once more she mounted and the rest of that first lesson continued without any further casualties. Soon she was able to ride well enough to do her own " stunts " in the films. Buddy was forgiven for having laughed at her and they became the best of friends. As long as she kept her own horses, Buddy was her foreman. Every morning she