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Show I Royal, but Couldn't Ride. When the Grand Duke Alexis or Russian Rus-sian visited this country with his Imposing Im-posing suite, one 0f the places to which the Russians went was out west for a buffalo hunt. The hunt was held in South Dakota, and Colonel Hatch of the army was assigned to take the party in charge and do the honors. Russians, except the Cossacks, ?r3 none too good when it comes to horsemanship, horse-manship, and this information was conveyed con-veyed to Colonel Hatch, with the request re-quest that some mild and gentle steeds be procured for the visitors for ths hunt. Hatch did the best he could with the army mounts, and the cavalcade started from Fort Robinson. The leaders rode slowly. It was a long and imposing procession. Just as Hatch was congratulating himself that everything was going nicely, his orderly rode up from the rear, saluted, and said: "Beg pardon, colonel, but one of them kings has fell off." Saturday Evening Post. |