Adventure Magazine, December 10, 1924 — page 214: what you’re looking at

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192 Senten four companions—four- bold and daring ds— They were Richardson, Jackson, Joe Collins, and Old Dad; Four more bold and daring cowboys the rangers never knew, They whipped the Texas rangers and ran the boys in blue.) Sam had another companion called “Arkansaw”’ for short, He was killed by a Texas ranger by the name of Tommy Short. Tom was a big six-footer,.and thought himself very fly, But I'll tell you on the quiet, boys, he was a dead beat on the sly. Joe Murphy borrowed of Sam’s good gold and then refused to pay, THE TRAIL DECEMBER 3OTH ISSUE The next issue of Adventure will bring you the following stories: ROCKETS AT DAYBREAK A Complete Novelette Already today I been shot three times and gassed once!”’ THE BLACK CUMMERBUND A Complete Novelette “Oy!” cried Sheehan. ‘Don’t shoot! Asa the Abyssinian wore it to its credit. THE LANTERN ON THE COW A Complete Novelette Adventure He thought the thing for him to do was to give young Sam away; So he sold him out both body and soul and left his friends to mourn. 7 Oh what a reconning Murphy will have when Gabriel blows his horn! Sam Bass was killed at Round Rock, July the twen- ty-first; They filled poor Sam with rifle balls and emptied out his purse. And ey he is dead and buried and his body turned to clay, And Jackson is in old Mexico, and I guess it is there he will stay. SEND all contributions of old songs, and all ques- tions about them, direct to R. W. Gorpon, 4 Conant Hall, Cambridge, Mass. DO NOT send them to the magazine. AHEAD Leonard H. Nason Kingsley Moses John Dorman “He was a fine hand with a boat, that Conch!” THE HOMESTEADERS A Five-Part Story Part IV Hagh Pendexter The Sioux lay siege to the town of New Ulm. THE DEAN OF RASCALS’ ROW He stayed in Panama after the others fled. GRUNTY SHANGHAIES A POET The crimp business isn’t what it used to be. WHALE-SHY Wolcott LeCléar Beard Thomas Topham James K. Waterman Luck breaks well and ill for Sid Skidder in the hunt for the biggest of all game. THE KILLER A horse that earned its appellation. WILD GAS James Parker Long F. St. Mars An American skunk agitates an English countryside. SCRAMBLED BRAINS Alex. McLaren Each prospector thought the other was crazy. Still Farther Ahead ‘THE three issues following the next will bring you long stories by Arthur O. Friel, George E. Holt, Thomson Burtis, W. C. Tuttle, John Webb, Edward Speyer, Arthur D. Howden Smith, Georges Surdez, Gordon MacCreagh, and Farnham Bishop and Arthur Gilchrist Brodeur; and short stories by James Parker Long, William Byron Mowery, Alanson Skinner, Romaine H. Lowdermilk, Fairfax Downey, Chester L. Saxby, Charles Victor Fischer, Raymond S. Spears, Nevil Henshaw and others; stories of explorers on the Amazon, desert riders in Morocco, aviators on the Border, policemen among the Eskimos, cowboys on the Western ranges, hard-case skippers off the Atlantic coast, Roman legions in ancient Britain, French troopers in Africa, adventurers the world around. cComicloooks =