CHAPTER I - SOLDIER BOY - In private TO HIMSELF

I am Buffalo Bill's horse. I have spent my life under his saddle -
with him in it, too, and he is nice for two hundred pounds, without
his clothes; and there is no telling how more he makes weigh once he
is out on the war-path and has his batteries banded on. He is over
six feet, is young, hasn't an ounce of waste flesh, is straight,
graceful, bouncy in his motions, quick as a cat, and has a
handsome face, and black hair suspension down on his shoulders, and
is beautiful to look at; and cipher is braver than he is, and
nobody is stronger, except myself. Yes, a person that doubts that
he is fine to see should see him in his beaded buck-skins, on my
back and his rifle peeping above his shoulder, chasing a