MUTT AND JEFF
IF A LITTLE FAIRY CAME TO
YOU AND. TOLD YOU THAT
YOU COULD HAVE WHATEVER
YOU WISHED FOR, BUT WHATEVER YOU GOT, I'D GET TWICE AS MUCH WHAT
WOULD YOU WISH FOR?
Do You MEAN THAT IF I ASKED FOR A MILLION BUCKS YOU'D GET TWO MILLION?
THASS
RIGHT!
LITTLE FAIRY
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THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 7, 1939.
By BUD FISHER
AND IF I'D ASK THE LITTLE FAIRY FOR TWO MILLION „YOU'D GET FOUR?
CORRECT! WHATEVER YOU'D WISH FOR I'D GET TWICA AS MUCH!
OH, DEAR
LITTLE FAIRY,
I WISH I WAS
HALF DEAD!
"
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THE DAILY SHORT STORY ·
SIX-GUN LAW
"When young Nate Palmer came to ever there was a holdup the victim was Blackhorse fifteen years ago," Sully always somone connected with a ranch Glass was saying, "there weren't no other than that owned by Henry Bull. law here. None atall but the law of In other words, Nate doped it out that the six-gun.'
Henry-Bull-controlled the doings in Blackhorse. There was a law and Henry Bull was it.
here,
I "You'd never think it now," re marked. We were sitting on the ver-
He anda of the new Blackhorse Inn. Hun- "Now this gave Nate an idea. dreds of automobiles passed in front of knew there was some widespread doubt us every hour. A half block down the about his ability to beat Henry Bull to street a traffic officer sweated beneath the draw, and he knew also that folks the bright Arizona sun. Over the top never expected to have it settled by a of the old Harmony Hotel across the demonstration, because Henry Bull al- street we could see the high tower of ways kept his own hands clean.
"Which is why one bright morning the new courthouse, on the second floor of which was a modern jail.
Nate strolled down Blackhorse's sun- Yes, Blackhorse had plenty of law baked street, pushed through the doors now. Too much perhaps. It seemed in- of the Blue Chip and confronted Henry credible that a decade and a half ago Bull, who was sitting at a table con- a man with a quick trigger finger could ferring with a half dozen of his hench- write his own rules.
men,
"Nate was twenty-two years old "'Henry," said Nate easily, 'when I when he came to Blackhorse," Sully come here I figured there was no law continued. "He was a deputy sherit but the law of the six-gun, and I aimed Since then I've appointed by Sheriff Seth Burton down to put a stop to that.
and at the county seat. Seth sent the discovered there's another law, youngster up here with instructions to you're it.'. clean out the place and protect the honest citizens. H
"Seemed like quite a dish to out to a kid like Nate Palmer,
"Henry Bull smirked with pleasure and twirled his moustache. 'Sonny,' he hand said, 'you're quick to catch on.'
but
"Yes,' says Nate, I reckon I am.
By Vic Yardman
Seth knew his business."
was sending the right man. chain lightning with his pole.
He knew he -You're the big shot here, You run this Nate was town. What you say goes. Fine. The old
smoke way I figure it a big shot has to have responsibilities. So I'm holdin' you I fig- responsible for the law-breakin'. "Folks in Blackstone had heard of ure you can step it if you want. There- Nate. They respected his adroitness fore, the next time there's a hold-up or with a gun. But this didn't stop the a killin', I'm comin' after you. That law-breaking. The day after his ar- goes as a warnin', Henry.'
ble was he couldn't get anyone to tes-
a
rival there was a shooting in the Blue "And Nate turned and walked out. Chip Saloon. A jigger named Bronco For a minute after he was gone there Every man who had Weston was killed.
was silence. heard that statement of Nate's knew "Nate_investigated and learned that that at last a show-down was coming. Bronco Weston and a boy named Hub Henry couldn't carry on.without-law- Olson had been at swords points for breakin', and if he continued he'd have months, Each had sworn to kill the
to match the young deputy with other on sight, and they had met in the quick-trigger finger. The boys rather Blue Chip and shot it out. Leastwise, looked forward to the meeting, that's the way he figured it. The trou- "But they were disappointed, Henry tify they'd seen the shooting, or even thought it over and he decided he'd be to the fact that Bronco and 'Hub had a dumbhead to go up against Nate in open battle. He might be able to beat had words.
"That was Nate's first warning of Nate and he might not. Anyway, he had everything to lose and not much what he was up against More killings to gain. If he just picked up stakes occurred. There were fights and
and cleared out he'd be able to live like brawls holdups and cattle rustling. Nate could get just so far in his inves, a gentleman the rest of his life on his tigations and no farther. He couldn't savings.
"So that's what he did. He got yel- corral an eye-witness. He couldn't lo- low and packed his things and cleared cate a soul who would guarantee he out. But it wasn't as easy as that. An knew anything about anything.
too
"Nate began to get mad. It looked hour after he'd gone some of the boys who'd been doing his dirty work for like Blackhorse was going to lick him. him and didn't like the idea of him But instead of quitting or going of walking off with all the profits, heard half-cocked he sat down and did some what had happened and set off on his good, hard thinking. Now, there was trail. They caught up with him a gent in Blackhorse at the time named and strung him up to a cottonwood Henry Bull. Henry Bull was a tall,
tree, quiet man with black eyes and a mean "And that was the beginning of law face. He was fast with a gun and he
and order in Blackhorse, because De- was rich. Probably he was rich be- puty Nate never investigated the mur- cause he was fast with a gun,
"Henry owned the Blue Chip saloon.. and the livery stable and the general store. He also owned a ranch up the valley a ways. The ranch was well stocked, and there was no doubt in any- one's mind that the stock had at one, time worn the brands of other ran chers.
"The more Nate thought the more he became aware that whenever a man was shot in an alleged drunken bra
der of its most famous citizen."
(Copyright, 1989, By The Associated Newspapers.)
re-
The Hongkong Society for the Protection of Children have ceived from the General Amuse- ments, Ltd, the sum of $210.75 re- presenting proceeds of the special performance of "Boys Town" held it was usually a rancher or a cow at 8.80 p.m. on June 3 at the Queen's who had the audacity to say unwise. things about Henry Bull. And when
Theatre,