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Show Killing Dad and the Rest. Colonel Cody could not induce a man in the show to shoot Dad, or hit him in the head with a club to put tho beast out of misery, and had to hire a lot of North Carolina darkies to administer the coup do gi ace. The roughest among 1me Rough Riders becamo a lot of old women at finding their favorite steeds mangled. One Cossack, with just enough United States vocabulary in him to swear violently, cried over his horse, repeating aloud to Major Burke, with ever-increasing emphasis as he held the brute's head m his arms, his three dreadful "cuss" words, Whila Dad was dying ho reached out his tongue to lick the wound of a companion groaning with pain. These hardened sinners of showmen moisten in more ways than one when speaking of their faithful steeds. |
