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N. A, JENNINGS, author of “A Texas Ranger,” spent four Years during the early seventies tn the ‘Star State in the mounted service, and then returned to his home in Phila phia, But the spirit of adventure moving him, he returne to the West, and 1881 found him tn Rico, Colorado, a frontier mining camp—primitive, lawless and picturesque. [te wore clothes that fitted him, and soou Lecatne known to the tnbab- {tants as a tenderfoot, One day he was sitting in the barroom of the only hotel in the place when the town marshal aud the shertif couferred one with the other as to a Lit of official business, during the Course of which the shertif asked the marshal for one of his Tevolvers. ‘The marshal drew {t from his holster and handed It over. It was of forty-five calltre, a Colt, precisely such & weapon as Jennings had carried for sears in Texas, and in the use of Which he was # famous expert, The serif held tt up admiringly. “Pretty blg gun, ain't 11?" he remarked, patronizingly, to Jennings. © Yes,Indeed," answered the former ranger, with cbitd- like Innocence. Don’t have such big guns as that in Philadelphia, eb?" Indeed. It must weigh about ten pounds.” “Well, {t doesn't welgh as much as that; but it's a pretty big gun, ain't ity”? + Yes; let's see tt. ‘The sheriif carefully opened the weapon and extracted six large, iurderous cartridges and handed It to Jennings, who took It in somewhat the same mauner as a nervous parent lifts his first-born. “Ain't much used to guns, suggested the shertd, hatf. pityingly, For sale by all Newsdealers in Great Britain. ‘The Inter- ws Company, Bream’s Building, Chancery Lane, national London, E. C., England, AGENTS. Established 1823. WILSON WHISKEY. That’s All! | THE WILSON DISTILLING CO., Baltimore Md. Jennings fumbled the pistol awkwardly and then handed ft lack butt foremost, Now, oue of the most prized tricks of the expert plaiustman Is to hand @ pistol toa man 1 the usual way, but, Just before It passes from him, to sbift tt in his hands with an tmperceptitie movement, so that the man who reaches for It finds bimseif looking into its tarrel, This ts what happened in Rico, and the shertif turned white tn «pite of his knowledge that the pistol was unloaded, Then Jen- pings nonchalantly caught the revolver on the trigger aud made it whirt like a pinwheel. Then be asked for another revolver, and soon had that «pinning tu his left hand. After tis exntbition he returned the plstol and walked out on the porch. Half an hour later a clean-shaven man sauntered up to Jenuings’s chair and said to bim tn a balf-whisper: “Say, stranger, where ave yon from?” From Philadelphia,” answered Jenvings. “Philadelphia thunder! 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