| Show COWBOY HANK HANKS WAS A WINNER Chicago News When Hank Gossage went to take the ute slicker oft his saddle it was noticed that there was a peculiar budge in it Hank dank took hold ot of the skirt pave gave ave it a sharp jerk and developed a box of ot cl cigars ars Open em up ho he said to Hermosilla Joe who had pounced on the prize Dont think youre robbIn me an get swelled up I 1 em in to lavish em Light em up and give your lungs a treat Put em in your pockets Chaw iem em if 1 you wanter dern your ethereal essences Your Tour right prodigal Hank said Billy DUly Harper smelling one of at the cigars critically I believe these is genuine flordee nor for dee Connecticut You have paid a dollar a hundred for em emMay emMay May Stay you live long and die happy the both of ot you and accumulate a family that will be a credit to the territory What did you do with the rest of ot your right tight ear car while you OU was gone gono goner That said Bald Hank waving aside the smoke smoke that was being blown toward him that was the tho penalty I paid Oai for lor formy formy my cussed ignorance of or parental instinct in instinct It as bad as it might be because it aint the top of a fellers oar ear ar that does him any good If It Paw Gash Wilder had shot out the hole I 1 t have got no more than what was com corn cornin in to me mo by right Paw got hostile did he inquired Cassius Stevens cautiously lighting one of the cigars He fooled me mo a mess said Hank Tell TeU you how it was Paw allus seemed to take a kind of notion to me rue meI meI I 7 never rode up there that he give ve me a cordial Invite to git off an ani J look Jook at my saddle not oven even if it was i five or six times a day which it was ras right often I 1 lowed he got no fool cool notion that I 1 was so dead stuck on him that I keep away twenty J four consecutive hours as like likeas Bs as not hed take his gun an go to look i at his traps like a 8 gentleman as i Id got the little hoss boss in the barn barnHo barnHo Ho He acted reasonable if not benign benignant ant right along an I 1 never grudged L him the plug o 0 he anus allus put absentmindedly Into the back o 0 his j jeans when I handed it to him to whit whittle whittle whittle tle off oft a chew If youve got one o 0 them hem left in the tho box I dont know but I 1 might smoke with you all allWell allWell allWell Well resumed Hank that bela bei the situation I sabe saba the Myrtle betrays when I spoke sI oke o 0 the news to paw You want to go at him powerful easy Hank she Hays cays Dont git gay You know lenow how you you are an If It he gits stirred up therell be sultry popping All the tho goin to be bedone bedone bedone done has been done five minutes ago girlie I says I sure do know how howare I 1 Iare are an so 80 so does paw I aw Me an him would have haye no trouble Im a heap con confident dent hen hell be plain tickled to death Dont you gamble none on that she says You cant tell about paw most always Dont git gil gay with him himI I dont want him to git gay with me I says Of Ot course I says sayS Ill al allers allars a aleis leis lars hes your our daddy but I dont see as hes hos any call to Instigate unpleasantness Hes got sense an Im right on to my Job every time sister and dont you go an forget It Dont you say I warn you she che says Well Wen after a while paw I comes back backan an Myrtle she tripped off to her little an left us to ourselves I I indulge In no preliminaries nor foolishness I opened right up on him Paw Taw I 1 says Its tg an my privilege to Inform you that Im in an alliance of a nuptial nature with th the family That aint no news to you Ill bet Still in case you ou thought it likely it d be a pleasant relief to you Is that so 80 he says sort of non Its a cinch I says Myrtle an me have got it all fixed Hied up an I told her herId herId herId Id ask uk you fer ter your blessin right clever of you to consider con consider consider sider me Hank he says But I J objected You show good sense senne I says nays There aint so many man boys around here with the o 0 cattle Ive got nor the tho ranch Ive got nor the high moral character Ive got An it do you no good no how Havin eased essed d myself o 0 these few re remarks remarks remarks marks I got up on my hands bands an knees an felt o myself all allover over to see It if almy all al my mr bones was in place Then I 1 looked at the surrounding landscape an then at the closed door I knew he was in inside inside side elde so I 1 use use no language lan language language guage I wondered If Myrtle had been out o her winder an bad had seen rite me makin no exit so abrupt I was mad I forgot lum forgot he was her daddy an I kicked the thedoor thedoor thedoor door in an caught him by that Ward beard eard of ot his As I done that I 1 felt elt a kinder funny sensation in my and to look down I 1 seen een it was the muzzle of t 45 46 against my waistband So I get go cf of his brindle chin appendage an backed off oft what you run on when youve gone an left your Our artillery at t thome home Then you rubbed the tip of your OUt ear off when you slid on the gravel asked f Hermosillo Not any replied Hank He took a shot at me as I 1 lit out He mean to hit me Jest tried to see see how ho dost clott he could come It wai poor for paw He felt ashamed of ot it St himself Then you seen him again agnin said raid Billy Dilly Harper Why Wh not said Hank T i i seen him after atter I went back to ehe he I ranch an heeled myself I got the drop on him as he was down hay for forthe forthe 1 the tile calves an then I ast him to please phase pl ase explain himself I Hank he says I no objection objection I tion to you In the world as a sonin 1 law If It I 1 had Id a run you vou off the tho I ranch six months ago an Oud have stayed run But when you ou come coma at a I father in the brash way you did youre t an the rules o 0 the fhe game gome Cordin to Hoyle fathers has got to be hostile he says due to snort an paw the grass when a boy bo comes around to rob em om of their dar darlIn lIn whether glad or not You want ant to come your blanket an makin peace signs not in like ben out on the warpath an had hail scalps Hank he says to wash my dishes for tor me if you take Myrtle over to your ranch Did you ever stop to think o 0 that Aint you ashamed o 0 yourself now Honk Hank HankI 1 Z I sure am paw I 1 says still sUII keep keepIn In down on him however I ask your pardon an nn though unworthy an reel n the gall w v got gotto gotto gotto to think of ot it an not fer a minute that grant my humble prayer I beg to Implore of you to give your consent to Myrtle an me IDe hitched some time In the not distant tore ture Its Ifs hard Hank he says heavin a 0 sigh from the n bottom of 01 his Its It tougher fn n blazes But my daugh daughters daughters daughters happiness is dear to me an ansay say If Sf you dont drop that gun Ill jam this pitchfork clean through you You can canh h haw T her herl derv dam your you hide hider hideL i t r h 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