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Learn more- Billy Bones was in love. The object of his affections was Priscilla Duff, cook at the boss's house. The boss was the owner of the Lazy W Ranch, and he was a hot-tempered young man named Harvey Campbell. That night Billy took his banjo and went out to sit under the kitchen window and indulge his soul in song. Harvey, who had taken a headache to bed with him, failed to appreciate Billy's musical efforts. He stole downstairs into the kitchen, and was in time to hear Priscilla say, leaning out of the window as she spoke: "Wait a minute, Billy. I've got something for you." She turned away to get a pie she had baked, and Harvey, snatching up a pan of potato peelings, emptied it on the singer's head. The shock to Billy's tender sensibilities was great. Nothing would soothe it but liquor, and he rode to town to get it. The night agent at Ratchita, twenty miles away, while napping, is suddenly attacked by a number of bandits. He is forced to open the safe. The money taken, the bandits leave him bound in a chair. The day agent releases the bound man and they notify John O'Keefe, sheriff, who starts out, after appointing seven deputies. Billy wants to go with them, but the sheriff refuses to let him, saying that Billy is too fat and too drunk. When he insists, O'Keefe has two deputies to put him in a cell. Meanwhile, Campbell and the cowboys are amused by a note left by Billy, asking the boss to leave his pay at the Oasis Bar, as he has quit. Billy manages to escape from jail, goes to the saloon and hears the sheriff saying that they lost the trail at Cactus Flats, but have wired Dobie to head the bandits off. Billy returns to the cell and is allowed to leave by O'Keefe. He comes into the jail again and holds up the sheriff and his deputies, disarming them. He phones the bartender, who rushes to talk with Campbell, and they hurry to the jail where Billy shows them some eye pieces cut out of bandannas that he found underneath his cell and suggests that they will find the money in the safe. At first O'Keefe refuses to open the safe, but Billy forces him to, and the money is there. Billy tells Campbell that there never was a woman who could be trusted with an honest man's love. Campbell tells Billy that Miss Duff has been crying her eyes out because he, Billy, left and that somebody else must have thrown the peelings at him. With sudden comprehension, Billy whirls out of the door and starts to the ranch, playing his banjo and singing at the top of his voice.
Moving Picture World, October 6, 1917
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