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Show HIP POCKET AND REVOLVER Ex-Ranger Says Weapons Arc Not Carried There by Cowboys. "I have Just been reading one of these books of Texas life, so-called," said an ex-ranger, who has had many dangerous experiences with "bad men," according to tho San Antonio Express. "The hero was a Texas cowboy, who wore a pistol in his hip pocket. Now, anybody with a grain of sense would know that cowboys don't go into hip pockets for their shooting shoot-ing arms. It's clumsy and unsafe. "When a man needs his gun he needs It bad and so ho will keep it in handy reach. Ho isn't going to take any chances of throwing his coat back or having his pistol stick when he tries to pull it out. Besides, a pistol big enough to do tho work, with a barrel bar-rel long enough to Insure accuracy of aim, wouldn't go into the hip pocket, anyway. "Some fellows carry theirs In theli holster, fixed on tho right side of their belts and they let tho belt swing loose, so that the pistol hangs well down on the hip. That's well enough; but I always preferred to carry mine In a holster under my left arm suspended sus-pended from tho shoulder and a little to tho front. "In this way there is no vulgar display dis-play of tho weapon; yet when you need it, all you have to do is to let your right hand fall carelessly, as if you wore going to take a lead pencil out of your vest pocket, and you are ready for any kind of argument." |