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"Co down

"And abandon our box?" objected Bennington But she was already in full

pursuit of the tall cowboy

The ring around the large boulder--dragged by un to forood places near the front rank, where they kneeled on their

handkerchiefs, and the crowd he

iven

tiranite boulder

To one who stood apart, the sight must have been picturesque in the

extreme The white dust, stirred by restless feet, rose lazily across

the heated air The sun shone down clear and hot with a certain

wide-eyed glare that is seen only in the rarefied at hovered a few anxious s part of the show Stolidly

indifferent Indians, wrapped close in their blankets, s the next pony race, the riders of which were skylarking about

trying to pull each other from their horses' backs

When the last pair had finished, the judges measured the depths of the

holes drilled, and announced the victors

The crowd shouted and broke for the saloons The latter had been plying

a brisk business, so that men were about ready to embrace in