Star was willing, but no horse could stand such a pace forever, so he reined in to a trot.
He reached it, at a point where the chapparal impinged upon the prairie, and there reined up under the shade of a mezquit tree.
A sound authority who knew him of old pronounced him "as good at telling an anecdote as in the '30's." But the fluent chatterer reined in and became a good listener.