Show 69 THAMS BAD MAN starts out to show oklahoma oklahomans Okla homans ns some gun play old time westerner WB terner gives him some real excitement and back to now new york he hies oklahoma city okla ernest L lucas lucaa came to tho the southwest from now new york several months ago to be a cowboy long enough to recuperate after a visit to texas he settled in osage county oklahoma chiefly because ho he had an acquaintance there and because it Is in the cattle grazing section the real old fashioned cowboy has disappeared from Olda oklahoma lioma but lucas know it tind and lie hid had provided himself with all the conventional cowboy paraphernalia including tingling jingling spurs ile ho engaged on a cattle grazing ranch near pawhuska and the day after his arrival put on oil hla his cowboy outfit and rode forth lucas lucaa managed to act and look like real cowboy while he pastured the beeves from texas also lie he met pete V jenkins proprietor of a livery stable who kho used to bo be a cowboy and Is sorry lucas lind and other men from his hie ranch were in a bootleggers place when jenkins camo came in fit lucas had just called for a round of drinks and he invited jenkins to join jenkins politely declined ile ho knew the other boys and winked at thorn them lucas insisted and when ofle stranger again dic declined lined he drew his big revolver and ordered lihn him up tip to the bar jenkins eyes grow largo large and round and abd he took the drink without further protest pro tosti then lucas ordered him to dance and after a few bullets had whizzed close to ills hla feet feel jenkins angly complied compiled lucas lucaa had fun with him for nearly half nn an hour before permitting him to depart jenkins went back to the livery stable dug out his old cowboy clothes and hat bat shook the oats out and put them on then he resurrected the revolvers he had carried when he rode the oklahoma and texas ranges oiled and hung them in hla his belt and put on the old spurs lie he was transformed from a livery stable keeper into the cowboy he had bad been years iago BRO ile he found lucas and ills his friends still at the bootleggers lucas recognized jenkins and his astonishment was great for lie he real laed now he was face to face with a real cowboy jenkins ordered the drinks and they all lined up then he ordered lucas lucaa to hands and knees lucas complied compiled and jenkins sat on his back and s spurred purred him 11 he rode lucas around tile the room down the dust covered stairway and into the street As lucas galloped down tho the street on all fours jenkins took out his revolvers and for or a few seconds there was a stream of fire from their muzzles the crowd enjoyed it lucas took tooh the first train back to new york |