The Taming of Wild Bill

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Bill never had felt the softening influence of love. He was a product of the days of '49 and he had stayed wild. He was about the wildest man in the Crazy Creek district, and that was going some. But there came a day when Bill tired of cooking his own grub and sewing on his own buttons, and he advertised his claim for sale. He was offered a pot of money by a Chicago investor and he could not know that the man was an errant rogue who intended to swindle him out of the mine, so he traveled on a Pullman, where he had many strange adventures, and landed in the city by the lake. Innocently enough he left his papers with the agent, who promptly proceeded to forge duplicates, and the swindle would have gone through had not the office stenographer conceived an admiration for Bill and slipped him a warning. Then things happened in earnest, and Bill did not come out second best. He was so far first there was no second, so the mine agent took it out on the typist and fired her. But Bill was waiting downstairs for a chance to thank her, and when he found out what the trouble was he offered his heart, hand and gold mine, all three of which found favor in the eyes of the little shorthand expert. And so they were married and lived happily ever after with never a thought of Reno, but it sure was a shock to the boys when they saw how a little five-foot runt from Chicago had tamed the wildness of the pride of Crazy Creek.