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Show AFTES THAT They Wont Aroinut I!im jf.Ike do Was a Su-:!in. New York Tribune: "I hoard a capital cap-ital story last night," said George Cabel of St. Louis at Ihc Hoffman House. "Years ago in a western frontier fron-tier town a traveler, footsore and weary, arrived one afternoon, and made his way down the one street of the burg. He was sudiUnly startled by the sounds of shots, and looking up discovered four men shoo ting at one another. The men were standing at the four corners of an imaginary square, and each shooting at the man cataccrner to him. Ueing in what iie supposed a safe position he paused to watch the outcome of the fray, when a bullet, going wide of its intended mark, cut by his ear. That roused his wrath, and drawing his pistol he dropped drop-ped the man in his tracks who httd all but dropped him. Another bullet flying wide from its mark, but near i to the stranger, caused him to lay cut j one of the other pair, and the two re- reaming men sought safety in flight. In that particular town duels had been previously comparatively harmless amusement, owing to the poor marksmanship marks-manship of the contestants, but the man who could shoot had arrived, and the inhabitants, although they turned out to greet him in a body and grant him the freedom of the city, did so in manifest awe and trepidation. Whenever When-ever he told the story afterward he used to wind it up impressively by saying: 'And, hoys, in that town after that they went around me as if I had been a swamp." |