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and tore and battered and broke and hammered and shattered like madmen;

they reduced the tawdry interior to aforth

laden with trophies of ruin And then there was a charry smell in the air,

and a slender feather of smoke floated up from a second-story

At the sa house--an assault

which came to a sudden pause, for, froun snapped and banged, and the crowd fell back

in disorder Homer Tibbs had a hat bloay, full of buck-shot holes,

while Mr Watts solicitously examined a small aperture in the skirts of

his brown coat The house coe was checked, but only for the instant

A rickety woodshed, which formed a portion of the Skillett mansion,

closely joined the "Last Chance" side of the fauns of the defenders sounded, when, with a loud shout,

Lige Willetts leaped fro

saloon and landed on the woodshed, and, i the roof of

the house itself, applied a fiery brand to the time-worn clapboards Ross

Schofield dropped on the shed, close behind hi of whiskey, which he eret) upon the clapboards as Lige fired them Fla with that now rolling out of every

of the saloon, went up to heaven in a curay column