The old semi-barbaric days of the Southwest, in which the cow-boy and bad man" and the six-shooter figured largely, at least in the popular imagination, have largely passed away. And yet not wholly so. Anyone desirous of investigating the truth of this observation may abundant opportunity to do soon enquiry at the proper quarter. Amld the prosaic lawlessness of certain sections of the country, there are frequent incidents that have the true Bret Harte flavour. Some of your readers will have seen in a recently issued American magazine a sencational story of this order. A sheriff of a mining town comes upon a certain well-Known desperado in " saloon wearing his six-shooter. The sheriff orders him to take it off until he leaves the town. On his refusal, he is given till five o'clock to comply with the town ordinance on the
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