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Show all Sales As told to: I ELMO FRANK E. nd SCOTT HAGAN WATSON Taming a Tornado THE Old Cattleman perched himself him-self od the top rail and squinted through the dust at the little bay pitching and squealing around la the middle "of the corral. "Reminds me of the time Pecos Bill met that tornado up on the Kansas line," he remarked. "She wre was a twister, all right. But Bill eared her down and climbed on. Oft she went, down across Texag, sun-Bshin', back-tlippln', doin' everything every-thing a bad boss ever thought of doin'. "But Bill just set up there, thump-that thump-that tornado in the withers, slap-pln' slap-pln' her across the head with his sombrero or fannin' hisself with It. Pp ahead he seed a forest that stretched away fer miles and miles. Bt after hi m and his tornado bronc hud passed it was nothln' but a bar-prairie bar-prairie the Staked Plains, they mils It today. "He rode her through three states but over in Californy she got bim. hen the tornado saw she couldn't toss him, she just rained out from "Oder him. Yep, that's how the Grand Canyon came to be washed ont in that part of Arizony. "Bill he come down ker-plunk in 'he southern part of the Golden s'ate and when he lit he made a big hole three hundred feet below sea-jevel. sea-jevel. I reckon you know It as Dentil Valley . what, you don't believe It? .Test go down there, then, ,ni take a look. You'll see the print ot his hip pockets in the solid rock ' what more proof do you want, anyway?" Western Newspaper Union. j |