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Show a " j ft Speaking of Reading JLj By BERTON BRALEY , 1 I like the tale of tho "open trail." The kind where the "men are men,'-Where men,'-Where the bad men clash and the six guns flash Vnd each bar Is a slaughter pen; 1 like the villains who wade in "killin'S1 Till the herd - hoots 'em dead The bloodv. gory, galloping StoTj v. herc every page runs red I ike ili- mrl who is in a Whir (if perils and dangers vasl Who thinks the hero a social zero, Vet marries the kid at lusJ; 1 like the twang ol the western elans And ihe lure of the old frontier Where tho 'TOO per cent Americans" went In the stories of yesteryear. I like the fights where they doused the lighi- As they heaped the dead in a mound, Where, each of the clan was a two gun man With a private burying ground, I like a tHle of that kind because It brings to my mind again The west as It probably never wa Rut possibly might have been (Copyright, 1922 NBA Service.) |