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Show A3 "BOYSIE" TOLD THE STORY. Impression of Recent Show Retained In Youthful Mind. Ho was eight years old and she was six. They were playing on the steps and their mammas on the veranda were listening. lis-tening. "Come here ard I will tell you a story." Six-year-old obeyed, aftet the manner of women, and heard th following: "Out west thero wns n man living on a ranch nnd his nearest neighbor lived on another ranch, threo miles nway. Ono day tho first ranchman sent his little daughter, who was five years old, over to the other ranch to get some milk. After she got a long distance from home she saw some Indians coming toward her on horseback. horse-back. She counted, nnd there were nine of thorn. She was very much rrightened, for the Indians wero riding fast, and wero yelling, and sho know they meant to kill her. Thcro wnB no place for her to hide or to run to. When she looked nround for help sho saw a cowboy coming from another direction. He wns riding fast, too, for he saw the Indians, and he know they meant to kill the little girl. The cowboy had tho best horse, and he rode up between the little girl and the Indians and began to fight them. They dashed at him and yelled fearfully, fear-fully, but the cowboy killed six or the nine and the other three were bo frightened nt him and at the way bo could shoot that they ran away and the little girl was saved. "And," he added, Impressively, placing his hand on his chest, "I was the cuwboy." "The result," murmured one mamma, mam-ma, "of raving been to a show." |