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Show Id 1 1 ales As told lo: 1 ELMO FRANK E. rd SCOTT HAGAN WATSON I Taming a Tornado THE Old Cattleman perched himself him-self on the top rail and squinied through the dust at the little hay! pitching and squealing around in j the middle of the corral. i "Reminds me of the time Pecos j Bill met that tornado up on the ' Kansas line," he remarked. "She sure was a twister, all right. But Bill eared her down and climbed on. j Off she went, down across Texas. I eun-lisliin', bnek-llippin', doin' every- tiling a bad boss ever thought of I doin'. "But Bill just set tip there, thump- , In' that tornado in the withers, slap- j pin' her ncross the head with his ! sombrero or fn rutin' hisself with it. Up ahead he seed a forest that ! stretched away fer miles and miles. ! But after him and his tornado hronc j had passed it was nolhin' but a har-V. har-V. ren prairie the Slaked Plains, they i v" calls It today. i "He rode her through three states but over in Californy she got him. i When the tornado saw she couldn't toss him. she just rained out from under him. Yep, that's how the Grand inynn came to be washed out In that part of Arizony. "Bill he come down l;er-pluuk in the southern part of the Golden state and when lie lit he made a big hole three hundred feet below sea-level. sea-level. I reckon you know it as Death Valley . what, you don't believe It? Jest go down there, then, I and take a look. You'll see the print ' f his hip pockets In the solid rock I "1 ... what more pruof do you want, s' anyway?" |