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THK HEAL BUFFALO BILL?SHOWMAN'. (Continued from page 2, column 2.) a him or a she?' " 'She's a girl.' 1 answered as quietly as 1 could. " 'Kind of thought it was. Kind of looked like it. Nlind if we sort of dawdle around with her? Babies ain't much of a crop out here.' "And so they stayed and 'dawdled' ?greatv powerful children in the baby hands of the little child that lay on the cot. Then, one by one, they turned and thanked me, the bartender again wiping his hands on that greasy apron. " 'We're plumb sorry about making rw ' ho arinlnp'iz.^ for the fOUTth ilC1 V. 1 J y ilV ~ ? or fifth time; 'we thoughten you and Cody'd gone over to the fort. We're plumb sorry about it. But you and and the young 'un trot on to bed now. There ain't no business tonight anyway, and these fellows want to go back to the fort. I'll set up in the barroom.' " 'You goin' to shet down?' One of the group asked the question as though it were a sacrilege. The bartender wiped his hands again. " 'Yep,' he answered with an air of old finality. 'I'm going to shet down.' " As became a frontiersman's wife, it ^ i became necessary that Mrs. Cody learn to shoot?shoot to kill. Bill would return from sojourning in far places, and, as we read: "Then would follow glorious, hap* py days in which he would put a sidesaddle on his favorite horse, Brigham, and w? would ride far out into the ; prairie. Then Will would bring-forth his heavy, cumbersome six-shooter from its holster, and hand it to me. " 'The next time anything happens,' he said more than once, 'I want you to shoot?and shoot to kill. Now, let's see whether your aim's improving. ' Bang ov.ay!' "Whereupon he wouia seieci n target, which to me seemed miles away, and with the most bland, childlike expression, tell me to hit it. " 'Hit that?' I would ask. 'Why, Will, a person couHn't hit that with a rifle, let alone a six-shooter.' - Will's eyes would open wide, and a halm-smile would come to his lips. " 'Give me that gun,' would be his answer. A swing, a sudden steadying of the wrist, and a burst of smoke. Then Will would- turn to me with a courtly bow. 'Please go look at the target,' he would ask. And invariably th$re would be a bullet hole in its center. "But the same thing did not happen when I shot. It was true that he had taught me something of the art in St. Louis and in Leavenworth? but did you ever try to swing a heavy A A thrmich the *t uanuci S1A-OUUUIC1 IU1 VU(JU mv air, bring it down to a level, get your aim and pull the trigger in less than a second? Will would not let me shoot any other way. " 'It's quick work out here 'in the west,' was his constant reminder! "'You don't shoot unless you have to vs' ?and then you shoot quick. Now ? . try it again.'" Gradually Mrs. Cody became ex_ pert at this sort of shooting, and then one day her husband began more diffi, v cult lessons: " 'Put Arta on your lap,' he ordered. 'Now?that target over there is an Injun. You've had to take a ride, and just as you come home this old Red Pepper bobs ur> on yc I want you to spur Brigham into a gallop and put a bullet through that old reprobate's* head.' . 'All at once?' I asked vaguely. " 'Why, of course.' my husband answered as though it were the most natural thing in the world. 'You know, if that Injun's out for business, he ain't going to wait for an invita' tion before he starts shooting. Gad!' ?he had caught the expression from ? -.*11 a/vV *-? >? a* P/~in m rt r* fl Tim P nf in CT if <L CUliegtJ yiuicssui, auu v?a.o uaiug n in almost every sentence?'I'll bet a r*' buffalo hump you can do it the first time.' "But Will was a bad better, I missed the first time, the second, and consecutively up about the hundredth, -while Arta. laughing and clapping her hands?yet shivering at every * blast of the old six-shooter?called for more. Will looked at me ruefully. " 'I guess there's only one thing for me to do. That's to get rich. I'll never pay for your cartridges any other way. Try it again.' " So this, too, Mrs. Cody learned, and she could hit a far target while riding at a full gallop. One day she was taken out to shoot buffalo with Arta strapped to her lap. It was an exciting experience; it preserves some of the excitement in her story: \ "Our horses leaped forward and we sped to the herd. A few hundred feet away from the bison Will sped ahead of me and drove his horse straight in to the mass of shaggy beasts. They split and fled, while WTill cut out four or five and began to circle them toward me. Then he waved his arm, the signal for me to begin my hunt. "My heart was pounding like a triphammer. The whole world was hazy, hazy except for those plunging buffa WIVES OX EASY TERMS. In Quaint Albania the Installment Plan of Purchase is Favored. Albania, so far as 1 am aware, is the only country where you can buy a wife on the installment plan, just as you would buy a piano or an encycio pedia or a phonograph. It is quite true that there are plenty of countries where women can be purchased?in Circassia, for example, and in China, and ;n the Solomon group?but in those places the prospective groom is compelled to pay down the purchase price in cash, not being afforded the convenience of opening an account. In Albania, however, such things are better done, a partial payment on the purchase price of the girl being paid to her parents when the engagement takes place, after which she is no longer offered for sale; but is set aside, like an article on which a deposit has been made, until the final installment has been paid, when she is delivered to her future husband. Albania is likewise the only country that I know of where everyone concerned becomes indignant if a murderer is sent to prison. The relatives of the dear departed resent it because they feel that the judge lias i cheated them out of their revenge, which they probably would obtain were the murderer at large by putting a knife or a pistol bullet between his shoulders. The murderer, of course, objects to the sentence because he I does not like imprisonment and because he believes that he couhl escape were he given his freedom. If he or his friends have any mon' ey, however, the affair is usually set- j tied on a financial basis, the fued is called off, the murderer is pardoned, and everyone concerned, save only the dead man, is as pleased and friendly as though nothing had ever happened to interrupt their friendly relations. A quaint people, the Albanians.?Scribners. Infernal Accident. Griggs?"When I don't catch the ed name of the person I've been introduced to, I ask if it's spelled with an 'e' or an 'i.' It generally works, too." Briggs?"I used to try that dodge myself until I was introduced to a young lady at a party. When I put the question about the 'e' or T she flushed angrily and wouldn't speak the whole evening." "What was her name?" "I found out later it was?Hill."? I^ondon Tit-Bits. lo, upon which my every attention was centered. I knew what to, do? Will was on the opposite of the beast, his rifle ready for an instant shot should anything go wrong, his horse keeping pace with the fleeing animals, his eyes watching their every movement. I gave the word to Brigham and while Arta, strapped to my lap, laughed and gurgled and clapped her little hands, we galloped forward. One great, heavy, humped buffalo had moved out a few yards from the rest of the stragglers, and Will waved an arm for me to indicate that this was the one I should down. I turned Brigham toward him, and the chase began. "For nearly a mile we raced, gradually cutting down the distance between the buffalo and myself. Then slowly we began to overtake him. Only a few rods separated us, and I raised my revolver as though to fire. But Will anxiously waved me down. "'Closer!' I could not hear the word but I could see his lips as he framed it. Even old Brigham seemed to understand that I was about to i make a mistake, for he suddenly plunged forward with a new speed, cutting down the distance between the speeding bison and myself. Soon the distance was cut in two. Now to a third. Again I raised my revolver, and this time Will did not object. There was a puff of smoke, the boom.ing of the heavy gun, and then? "Then, with a thrill that I never again shall know, I saw the buffalo stumble, stagger a second, and fall headlong. From behind came a wild sound and I saw Will standing in his stirrups and whooping like a wild Indian. " 'You've got him, mama.' he shouted. 'I knew you could do it? knew it all the time.' 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