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Show "XFTIIITtiTAt' rinf Treat Arosad tllpi Ilk tla Mae . aoarap. L New Tnrk Tribune: "I hoard n rap- l Hal atorr lt night," aald Oeerie f Cabel of St. Loul at the Hoffman llouie. "Years ago In a weetera frontier fron-tier town a traveler, foolaor and weary, arrived one afternoon and l made hit war down the one alreat of V the burg lie vu auddenlr ttartled liy the uiunde of ahota, and looking up discovered four men snooting at one another. The men were tlandlng at the four cornera of an Imaginary quare, and each shooting at the mm tutacorncr to him Heine In what he euppoeed a aafo portion he panted to watch the outcome of the frar. when bullet, going wide of Ita Intended mark, cut br hl ear. That routed hit Y wrath, and drawing hla pkttol he drop-. drop-. ped the man In hla track who had all but dropped him. Another bullet r living wide from I la mark, but near i to the atranger. cauaed him to lay out ' one ot the other pnlr, and the lo reft re-ft mainline men sought aafetr In flight. ( In that particular town duel had been previously comparntlvely harmless ; amusement, owing to the poor mark-, mark-, tuanshlp ot the conteettnta, but the , man who could alioot had arrived, and the Inhabitants, allhough they turned '. out to greet him In a body and grant f lilu tha freedom of the city, did to In Vr - .,InnltelHwiCiml,trllJtloiv iWhn g ever be told tho ttory afterward he r uid to wind It up Improealrily br t- earing 'And, boyi, In that town after that Iter went arouud mo at If I bad been a enamp." |