Show 77 FLOYD GIBBONS adventurers C club jub q J X the man alan from the west by FLOYD GIBBONS famous headline hunter know boys and girls somewhere in these united states state s YOU theres a big soft voiced T texas exas cowboy and if you know anybody like that tell him that winifred mcevoy is looking forham for him winifred looking for that guy no dont get me wrong now for that tough cut of texas be beef ef to io collect a bill or to bawl him out she got from the butcher shop last week she wants to thank that cowpuncher for a little favor he did her once a little favor that never forget as long as she lives story of the first water and back of that favor lies a story an adventure with her husband and winifred when 1924 this goes back to yarn at that time a in england her three year old baby boy was living rodeo at the crystal palace bunch of american cowboys were staging a 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 ail over and they were supposed to be in bed for the night the busiest streets in n london on horseback those cowpunchers cow punchers rode down dow n until tile the londoners Lon doners ears rang and pees at full gallop letting out bips yips lariats on the they lassoed the hats off of london cops and dropped their their immaculate collars and disc discomposing om necks of london gentlemen wrinkling them most horribly bah jovel jove I 1 winifred thought they were it a buncia of roughneck rough necks s and so they were I 1 mean it takes to reason with a regiment of cows few college professors have ever made a success of it wild and fearful creatures to her winifred never expected to meet one of these cowboys face to face if one her front door bell shed have run screaming of them had cone come up and rung tor for the police how seared scared she was of those wild and woolly westerners 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 to tell about had happened he said after this thing im going you that held hed often been seared scared during the war but hed never run across anything in the line of fright like the terror terro r he felt just a second or two before that big texas cowboy went into action there was a big aeronautical exhibition staged at hendon in july 1924 and the tha Ale Evoys went up to see it at that time hendon was just a big field with no modern facilities for safeguarding the crowds that came to see the ex nothing but a rope separated the spectators from the field and wintred wintfred 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 like that very much though he kept 7 d q 1 I 1 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 bis wife then he became absorbed in the exhibition hibi tion again 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 could have 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 banded 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 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 f figure cut ut to pieces by the whirling propeller blades I 1 knew I 1 get to my baby in time to do any good and tile the roar of the plane would prevent even my voice from reaching him crying my husbands name I 1 attempted to clamber under the ropes when I 1 heard a quie quietly aly compelling voice that even reached my hysterical understanding the voice said dont get excited maam alam and a then he I 1 saw bething something me thing happen that I 1 think possible 1 I amt felt a jerking de movement beside me heard a swishing sound and saw a ann rope sotol settle down around T that baby formin a fraction fraet lon of ota a second he was wag pulled to the ground and or of the propeller dragod to safety out from under the whirling blades A lite life line floats in from heaven it all a happened so that swiftly y the te crow who were cranin a As t a I 1 IT particularly reached for daring daran s exhibition up P above alda t realize craning what had their occurred occurred occur necks reS my baby the rope was deftly flicked from around ille his body was slightly disheveled but quite unhurt and by the time an di realized that my husband we really had a son our cowboy friend 1 I had a naj hazy recollection of a very large stetson was gone strong hands a rope and a wonderful voiced but on we were never able to find babas rescuer I 1 hope if this story Is our quiet voiced every published that that man will see it and I 1 know that he has t he constant prayers and gratitude of a widowed mother son tie saved for her who has no w only tha so boys and girls if you rup rac talk across that that message from winifred texas cowpuncher P cher just give him service Berv loa |