Show ROBBING TOR FUN run the way vt ay a party of air asli tour made to 0 o A raney aniu y dance ii in flip na abonal lional varak helena independent uncle clufus ia is i jolly old foul soul mid and a lover over of practical nI jokes lie ile played oro on oil some of his guests in the national park the other day lay which ans greatly enjoyed by everybody except the victims it came about in this way in the excursion ion which he lie brought brough out tout to wonderland last week were several englishmen it is characteristic teri te stio of johnny bull to look with contempt upon everything american and to hrag brag about their own national prow prowess M well these particular E englishmen swells sivells principally were regaled by such suet old timers aa its they encountered with tales about montana road agents and true to the national ins instinct the foti foreigners signers asser asserted ted that iu in america we dont know how to deal with such fellows you know one of them said aw yo ye anaw yc ye dont seem to wat cow these fellars fellahs arc are ye yo anaw the lionly way to dispose hof bof them properly is like we do with tha tho in eusope shoot a few hof them yc ye anaw they cahnt that yo anaw and soon daive thein hout of the kwoun twy with this view of the caso enso the oilier britons agreed undo clufus was within hearing and smiled smile ho ile smile for nothing he ile had a scheme in the afternoon the E englishmen went up the gulch about half a it mile from the hotel to bathe in a natural pool situated there this was hatcha opportunity there were meyeral cowboys of tho tile wild and woolly sort in the vicinity and clufus hired them to go up to where the englishmen were bit bathing liing and give them a tuto of western highway robbery the rile englishmen had juat dis robed and gone into the water when five wild and to them desperate looking horsemen came round a point within a few rods of the tile po pool 01 swinging their six shooters and whoop ng Dg while their made the he earth quake with their g galloping a llop the desperadoes charged straight on the bathers and tile air above be alio 11 0 pool was biasing with bullets and what did the valiant subjects of the queen do did they spring to their clothing pull their pops tind land lay tho the desperadoes I 1 low OW in death re 30 did they stand their ground laugh t er and defy defy tit alio beastly II Il american co cow we a aads it no they did not even do that they dove love what they did when they finally stuck their noses out for fora a breath of air tho tile cowboys had dismounted and were Ft standing anding by the tile pile of clothing one ot of them going through the pockets for watches and wallets while the other tour covered the pool with their revolvers As soon as the E englishmen limen stuck their leads above water they were called upon to stand up lip tin annj hold up their hands they obeyed without reflecting for a moment ML liow how easy casy it would bo be to daive the was cals eliout of the kwoun twy there was silence for a few moments while tile booty was being secured after this was the cowboys consulted a moment and then mounting their cayuse cay leveled their revolvers and shouted come out of that water uncle english guests marched i solemnly to shore their faces clouded with confusion they were marched to a smooth spot about fifty yards from the wate waters rs edge and hero here they were paired off oil two by two there were eight of them and one of the wild western terrors yelled get your partners for a cotillion li oll then whilo while one cowboy whistled yankee doodle another called the figure figures 6 4 and the other three kept up a L lively accompaniment with their pistols whooping el shooting looting and making tho the gulch ring with their shouts of basterl Fa sterl faster it was as a flinta fantastic eight sight descendants of the best blood of 1 I hold old heveland He neland whirled in tho the mad dance clad in ill no lie garb except that low provided by nature and every fel ow expect expecting ilig at a any i 1 I 1 moment to have that filled sn so f full kt I 1 ol boles tha t it hold br li soul this iv was kept up for ten or fiete fifteen minutes il lutcs and then the tile cow cowboys boys thinking they had perhaps i carried the joke far enough told their prison prisoners ers they might resume their clothing but on penally penalty of death to not attempt returning curnin to the hotel for an hour they illey then alen took the tile watches jewelry and captured pops and rode off OX going back to the hotel they delivered tho the booty to undo rufus in an in hour or so the plundered n pilgrims cume doali to the hotel ind and r related la ted how they had been at by about twenty road road agents and nd after a it determined fight 11 had wounded some of the enemy and driven the whole gang off in ill fact our ur E english cousins cousin fixed up about as is bloodcurdling blood curdling a story as UK t the cord ardt II 11 lary I 1 y westerner could epin them thein through ind and then baid quietly 1 I suppose u bad much ofa of a fight as I 1 noticed that none of dour your pistols lad had been dili discharged charged A and n in proof of ha h ii statement tat ement tho the ail anable lible im lessee ce odthe of the national park stepped into another room and brought out ont a i tray containing all the plunder boll pictou i on oil top being the tile pia phi tol every chamber loaded were in the jenice did ye yo get that yc ye anaw now chorused the tile engli englishmen 0 ahmen O b replied hatch nonchalantly 1 il I happened across the gang of road after they bad habrot robbed bed yon yen I 1 took tolk your pr property away from anil alid then killed every mothers son of then their scalps arc are I 1 hanging in 1 1119 ill in my room and ij uncle nc 1 0 19 hufus fits strutted off with his thul thumbs libs 1 in liis his vest arm colea while t the 11 E englishmen pocketed their property and slunk link to their rooms 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