To pursue them would be like chasing the fleet-footed mountain goat in his rocky fastnesses.
The fleet-footed barbarians could travel almost as fast on two legs as he could on four.
In the meantime the Indian on his fleet-footed ponies would likely be fifty or one hundred miles away from the point of encounter.
The scouts fondness for fleet-footed ponies was well known by his friends.
But pull the mules never so heartily the fleet-footed savages kept the pace, and kept it well.
