THE AUTHOR, PORTRAIT, ON STEEL YOUTHFUL ADVENTURES SAMUEL'S FATAL ACCIDENT BILLINGS AS A BOCARRO BILLINGS RIDING LITTLE GRAY EXCITING SPORT STAKING OUT LOTS MY FATHER STABBED MY FATHER'S ESCAPE LIFE OR DEATH BOYISH SPORT TWO TO ONE KILLING

THE AUTHOR, PORTRAIT, ON STEEL YOUTHFUL ADVENTURES SAMUEL'S FATAL ACCIDENT BILLINGS AS A BOCARRO BILLINGS RIDING LITTLE GRAY EXCITING SPORT STAKING OUT LOTS MY FATHER STABBED MY FATHER'S ESCAPE LIFE OR DEATH BOYISH SPORT TWO TO ONE KILLING

" [Illustration: BILLINGS AS A BOCARRO]

Who are you?" "My name is Horace Billings," was the reply.

We call him little Billy;" and turning to me said: "Billy, my boy, this is a cousin of yours, Horace Billings, whom you've often heard me speak of.

" Horace Billings had never been heard of from the day he ran away from home, and his relatives had frequently wondered what had become of him.

Father told Billings all about Little Gray, and his great fault of running away.

Billings laughed and said Little Gray could not run away with him.

Billings managed him by the rope alone, and convinced him that he was his master.

Billings stood straight up on his back, and thus rode him into camp.

[Illustration: BILLINGS RIDING LITTLE GRAY.]

"That's a pretty good horse," said Billings.

The exhibition of horsemanship given by Billings on this occasion was really wonderful, and was the most skillful and daring feat of the kind that I ever witnessed.

This kind of work of course just suited the roaming disposition of Billings, especially as it was similar to that in which he had been engaged in California.

I made rapid advances in the art of horsemanship, for I could have had no better teacher than Horace Billings.

He thought of the psalms which he had so often led, and he asked all to join in singing Billings's "Jordan." "There is a land of pure delight, Where saints immortal reign; Infinite day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain.

Of equal importance was the colored seminary established by Henry Smothers, a pupil of Mrs. Billings.

" "What about Billings?" asked McBane.

Billings was the white Republican mayor.

Diogenes Billings, the cook, had now a little leisure to serve us a warm breakfast.

E.R. Billings, Tobacco (Hartford, 1875) is a good general treatise.

"Brandy, Billings?

M. E. Biles (W); 21Oct68; R446163. BILLINGS, WILLIAM.

Miss Billings makes a sale.

R61031, 13Apr50, Loew's inc. (PWH) MR. BILLINGS SPENDS HIS DIME, a photoplay in six reels, by Famous Players-Lasky