Show SAVED BY A LARIAT of the laggo as a life preserver the writer had corralled a man in a hotel lobby and was holding him up for all there was in it which was a good deal considering that the man been east for ten years or more and had never fallen into the clutches of alie journalist in quest of an item of interest you were asking me awhile ago about the lariat and its uses lie said and it reminds me of a time on one occasion when it served an excellent purpose as a life preserver it always used for that is it queried the writer well no laughed the westerner ive seen it do prompt service when there was no other rope handy and tin liess thief was hut this time was dif ferent he went on 1 I know because I 1 was the one preserved we were up in the canyon country looking for some cattle and one of the boys and I 1 biad gone off alie trail to a to take a bath as you might call it in the east for it was hotter than blazes and aliade was not plentiful we went into alie water some distance above a turbulent rapid and a waterfall of feet and as we dian didn t go to swim so much as to get cool all wo needed was water to cover us and all my companion took 1 I was however more ambitious and leaving been a fine swimmer when I 1 was in the east I 1 thought I 1 would branch out a bit I 1 was soon branching out extensively and the first thing I 1 knew the swift water caught me and down I 1 went toward alie fall I 1 tried to pull for the shore but it was nu good and then I 1 set up a yell eliat made alie canyon echio and my partner came after me along alie shore I 1 wan fifty feet out in alie stream struggling and there any more sign of salvation for me alian if I 1 had been in mid ocean down I 1 kept going whirled and turned upside down and fired around promiscuously until about a hundred yards above alie final fall I 1 caught on a rock it was just high to keep my head out of water and I 1 to it till my finger nails seemed to be embedded imbedded im in it sly partner at this showed what kind of a fellow he was in an emergency for he appeared on our two lariats tied together and just as I 1 was about to let go and be smashed on the rocks below lie swung that lariat as cool as hr ever did from the back of his mustang and it dropped square over my licad the rest of it I 1 am not very conscious of because by the time he had pulled me ashore by the neck I 1 was about as near hung as I 1 ever want to be but lie brought me around all right in the course of half an leour or so and I 1 was quite as good as new again that was a narrow escape remarked the writer and that was an odd fellow who saved me added the westerner for he was so mad about the scare I 1 biad given him that ill be blamed if he turn to before the day was over and give me the worst licking I 1 had ever got in my life for scaring liim so washington star |