Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1881 — An:Outlaw's Sweetheart. St Louis Chronicle. [ARTICLE]

An:Outlaw's Sweetheart. St Louis Chronicle.

The robbers used frequently to shoot at targets in company with their sweethearts, in the shooting the girls making sometimes almost as good a score as the men. aud the yells that would reud the air as one’s favorite lady would split the bullet on the half dollar as it fell toward the ground would have done justice to a border scout. Nor were the young Jadies behind them in equestrianism, Miss Ryan, in particular, often boasted that she could drop the nickle as often in the race as any of the boys. It may be proper here to explain the modus operandi of the “nickel race.” A nickel or other small coin is placed iu the forks of a tree,about the distance from the ground that a man’s shoulder would be while on horseback. Each party has one shot at it as he flies by on his horse at full speed. The ladies take their regular turn, and Miss Ryan has been known to drop the nickel three times out of five races,aud that she is indeed at home in the saddle is demonsirated by the fact that when alighting from her favorite horse, a black charger, she simplyraises in her saddle aud leaps to tbe ground, while her horse walks to the n earest hitching post to await his rider. When she is ready to remount her intelligent horse comes at her call, aud taking the sad die by tbe pommel she bounds into it and is off at a fast gallop, the ouly gait she ever rides.