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Usage examples of bounder.

Beneath her she felt Bounder picking his way carefully across the plain.

In the end, she dismounted, looping the reins over the branches of a clump of scrub in case Bounder had plans of his own.

She began to circle the horse, widening her path until Bounder was lost in a haze of dust.

She remembered a clear autumn night five years ago when she had led Bounder, docile as a lamb, to the front veranda of the homestead, where the boss sat in a straight-back chair watching her with his unflinching gaze.

And just as if he was performing in the circus, Bounder had gone down on his front legs as she swept off her hat in a graceful arc and bowed to her uncle.

The boss had known it, she had known it, and surely Bounder, with his brumby intelligence, had known it, too.

She had asked Bounder to perform since then, but not for a year at least.

The struggle to do so had not been one of her finest moments, and not until Bounder had risen to his feet and the man remained firmly across the saddle had she been certain her plan had worked.

But there was some dried up vegetation for Bounder to feed on and a bucket that she half-filled with water from her own supply.

At the trees, Mackenzie dismounted and left Bounder to drink and graze.

Then she finished her chores and mounted Bounder for the trip to the hut.

Patrick leaned over the side of the shelter where Bounder was hobbled and watched him eat the tufts of dried grass that Mackenzie had found for him.

Mackenzie waited for some sign that Bounder had tired of being domesticated and was ready to assert himself.

He continued stroking Bounder, but it was Mackenzie he watched, Mackenzie he wanted to touch.

She caught Gimme and Bounder, who had found his way back to the homestead after a week in the open, and was saddling them when she saw her uncle approaching.