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Show WROTE THE Author of the Ozark Sensation Discovered in Colorado Walsenburg, Colo., March 4. "I'm It the original 'noun daws' man. 1 writ it an' I'm runn.n away." Yelling "like a Piute Indian on the war trail, "Lige" Spencer of Ozark I county, Missouri, swung his team- of mules off the Santa Fe trail Into the main street of Walsenburg today and pulled up before a "wet" cafe with the announcement that ho was the "poet of the Ozarkjs" and 'the man who wrote the famous "dawg" song. A piebald coon dog had ambled Into town ahead of Spencer and his team and went to sleep In the roadway in fronl of the mules almost as soon as thb team came to a stop. "That dawg" and Lige pointed at the sleeping hound as he unfolded his six feet two of body to get down from his wagon seat "that dawg was the inspiration of the most famous song that ever was writ, and, fnrthei, he is the best coon dawg that ever chased a ring-tail into a scrub oak." "And still further, I can lick, outrun out-run or outjump or outwrestle any man who starts klckin' him around." As one one seemed Inclined to take up Sponcer's challenge, he climbed onto his wagon seat, cracked his whip and Spencer, his mules and the hound disappeared In the direction opposite from which they entered town. |