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Show HE SHOT THE HAT. A loaitirtial Risky Cii t o m tm Oklahoma Okla-homa That 9ave Tim on I a Windy Day. "A whole lot of ideas with which we grow up change when we get into another an-other country," said' a New York man whi) has just, came back from a three months' trip in the .southwest, accnrd-i accnrd-i ing to the Sun. ".Now, one of the things j we have heard of all our lives is that if a man's hat blows off he is a fool to run after it, for t liere is a Iways some- ; body around polite enough to pick it. up and hand it to the owner, if he has to walk a block to do it. "I have seen it done. I have read about it more times than I have had hats. "But it is not. the custom at lieno, Okla. I was sitting on the veranda of the hotel in that town, watching the various articles which one of those ' sandstorms whirled through the air. "The hat of a citizen was raised and ' " carried against a place on the other i side of the street. A strapping fellow, j who had been picking his teeth with I a match as he sa.t near me on the varan- da, got up, whipped out a navy revolver - - and fired a shot at the hat, nailing it I to the fence. "The owner came up, pulled the hat from its impalement, waved his hand at the man on the veranda and proceeded proceed-ed on his way. " 'It saves time runnm' after it,' said the man on the veranda, 'and it don't hurt the hat.' " |