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Show A BIG EASTERN STORY. How UufTalo Bill' Iaofhter Conquered Horse. Kansas City Star. Au eastern paper has published an articlo eulogizing Mis Arta Cody, daughter of Buffalo Bill, as being "a chip of the old block." She is described des-cribed as a magnificent, queenly looking look-ing young woman, and credited with having as much courage as her father. It is related that some years ago when Miss Arta was about 14 years of age Cody had in his stable a large, handsome, hand-some, high-spirited horse that was particularly par-ticularly vicious so much so, in fact, that Cody himself did not caro about riding h'uu. One day Arta concluded that she would ride this horse, the story goes, although the stableman sought to dissuade her. She was determined, however, and succeeded in getting a bridle on him, aud then leaped nimbly to his back. The horso reared and plunged, ami finally threw her. She was up again in an instant, and once more on his back. This tune the animal threw her over his head, scratching her face to a considerable degree. With blood streaming down her face, her eyes filled with tears, and her rage so great that she looked like a young tigress, she sprang to her feet crving: ' The brute, I'll ride him now if "he kills me," and, suiting tho action to tho word, gave the horse the most terrible beating he had ever received, and when she had completed the animal ani-mal was as docile as the proverbial Old Dobbin," and Miss Arta rode off triumphantly, while her father and tho stableman looked on in astonishment. An aunt of the voung woman and a sister of Buffalo Bi'll, Mrs. Jester of this city, says the story related is one of a great manv fictitious newspaper articles arti-cles that has caused the Cody family no little embarrassment. Miss Arta Cody, however, she savs is an accomplished rider, but not the '-wild and woolly" variety which one might be led to infer from the story. |