Show 7 FLOYD GIBBONS adventurers club the man from the west by FLOYD GIBBONS famous headline hunter y au know boys arid girls somewhere in in these united states 1 theres a big soft voiced texas cowboy and if you know anybody like that tell him that winifred mcevoy is looking for him no dont get tile me wrong now winifred looking for that guy to collect a bill or to bawl him out for that tout tough ili cut of texas beef she got from the butcher shop last week she wants to thank that cowpuncher for a little favor he be did her once a little favor that she will never forget as long as slie she lives and back of that favor lies a story an adventure story ot of the first water this yarn goes back to 1924 when winifred with her husband and her three year old baby boy was living in england at that time a bunch of american cowboys were staging a rodeo at the crystal palace in london and they had the whole doggone conservative town talking about the capers they cut up and the monkey shining they did at hours when the show was all over and they were supposed opposed to be in bed for the night those cowpunchers cow punchers rode down the busiest streets in london on horseback at full gallop letting out alps yips and pees until the londoners Lon doners ears rang they lassoed the hats bats oft of london cops and dropped their lariats on tile the necks of london gentlemen wrinkling their immaculate collars and discomposing them most horribly ball bah jovel winifred mcevoy thought they were a bunch of roughnecks rough necks ecks and so they were I 1 mean it takes a roughneck to reason with ft a regiment legi ment of cows few college professors have ever made a success of it IL cowboys were wild and fearful creatures to her winifred never expected to meet one of these cowboys face to face if one of them had come up and rung her front door bell shed have bare run screaming for the police how seared scared she was of those wild and woolly westerners put but one day she did meet one and she has never had any cause to regret it now it so happened that the whole mcevoy family were pretty keen on aviation winifreda Wini freds husband had been an officer in the royal air force and had flown a sky buggy all through the world war and after this thing im going to tell you about had happened he said that held hed often been seared scared during the war but held hed never run across anything in the line of fright like the terror he felt just a second or two before that big texas cowboy went into action there was a big aeronautical exhibition staged at blendon in july 1024 and the went up to see it at that time blendon was just a big field with no modern facilities for safeguarding the crowds that came to see the exhibition hibi tion nothing but a rope separated the spectators from the field and wintfred winifred and her husband were standing at that rope well up in the front of the crowd interesting Inte boins take their minds from baby they had their little boy with them too winifreda Wini freds husband was holding him in his arms the little fellow uke like that very much though ne ile kept N 1 6 pa 1 1 I I saw a rope settle down around that baby form saying want to sit down and after a while winifreda Wini freds husband set him on the ground between him and his wife then he became absorbed in the exhibition hibi bibi tion agam again I 1 winifred was absorbed in that exhibition too she herself had been attached to a flying unit during the war and she was as interested in aviation as her husband planes were zooming and stunting all over the field landing and taking off so fast you could hardly keep count of them and the next thing winifred knew she looked down to where her baby should have been where she coul dhave sworn he was and well he just there frightened winifred cast a quick glance out across the field and there she saw something that fairly made her heart stop beating A plane had bad just landed and was taxiing to a stop fifteen or twenty feet away from the ropes behind which she was standing and toddling across the field right into the path of the plane was her ber little boy youngster wanders into jaws of sudden death says winifred 1 I was terrified led in one horrible second I 1 could see that tiny beloved figure cut to pieces by the whirling propeller blades I 1 knew I 1 get to my baby in time to do any good and the roar of the plane would prevent even my voice from reaching him crying my husbands husband a name I 1 attempted to clamber under the ropes when I 1 heard a quietly compelling voice that even reached my hysterical understanding the voice said dont get excited maam and then I 1 saw something happen that I 1 think possible 1 I felt a movement beside me heard a swishing sound and saw a rope settle down around that baby form in a fraction of a second he was pulled to the ground and drugged dragged to safety out from under the wh liling blades of the propeller A lifeline life line floats in from heaven it all bapp happened ened so BO swiftly that the crow who were craning their at t a particularly daring exhibition up above realize what had occurred As AB I 1 reached tor for my baby the rope was deftly flicked from around his body he be was slightly disheveled but quite unhurt and by the time my husband and I 1 realized that we really had a son our cowboy friend was gone 1 I had a hazy recollection of a very large stetson strong hands on a rope and a wonderful voice but we were never able to find our babas rescuer I 1 hope if this story is every published that that quiet voiced man will see it and I 1 know that he has the constant prayers prayer and gratitude of a widowed mother who ho has now only the son ion he saved for her 01 so boas and girls if you run across that texas cowpuncher just give him that message from winifred d to |