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Times July 28"

WILLIE WAS ARRESTED.

But He "Took a Fall Out o' Chimmy Just
de Same."

When Willie Johnson, one of Mr. Daniels's
most especially washed waifs, smelt powder
and saw Col. Cody put to rout seventy or
eighty redskins single handed he wanted to
go and do likewise. He didn't care with
whom or what he conducted an encounter,
but he thought "Chimmy'" McGill would do
as well as anybody.

"We're de ell's Chimmy?" he inquired of
a friend.

"Chimmy's over on de good side 'mong de
girls," said the other.

"Hully gee! See me go spoil his hair cut,"
said Willie, and he went.

Just in one of the intervals when Buffalo
Bill's tame Sioux had retired to be revived
from his prodigies of valor, the spectators
were astonished to notice a little figure with
a brand-new hair cut and a clean collar,
worn as though its owner had suspicions of
its propriety, make his way across the arena.
He went straight to the spot where "Chimmy"
McGill was conducting a miniature flirtation
through the medium of a popcorn bag,
said not a word, but biffed him between the
eyes. Then he returned solemnly back
across the arena to his seat. Retribution,
however, came to him later when two of his
enemies, "de cops," hauled the hero from his
seat and locked him up in Woodlawn station.