Dime Novel Dan (1909)
In the district messenger office, Dan, with several other boys, are seated on a bench waiting for their turn. Dan is absorbed in a dime novel as the clerk hands him a message with instructions to hurry. Coming out the door, the messenger runs into a man on a stepladder, upsets him, but continues on his way reading. This headline holds him: "With a wild shriek Blue Feather bit the dust." In his mind's eye Dan sees a child in the foreground playing with her doll. An Indian with a knife between his teeth is creeping upon her. As he rises to his feet and is about to grab the child the boy hero enters at the rear, fires, and the Indian falls dead. Dan walks on, boards a street car still reading, walks over the passengers' feet spellbound in his novel. Another line, "at that moment Young Daredevil raises his trusty rifle and fired," a wild landscape, a soldier standing before a huge rock, sword in hand, prepared to sell his life dearly. Six Indians are creeping toward him. They start to rush forward when the Young Hero appears, fires one shot and all fall dead. Dan gets off the car, steps in front of n passing automobile, and is run over. A crowd rush forward, expecting to find the messenger lifeless, but he gets up and walks off, still reading. Another paragraph reads: "In another moment Black Fox was hurled over the dreadful precipice," the Boy Hero and an Indian are fighting on the edge of a precipice, the struggle ending by the hero raising the Indian over his head and hurling him over the brink. Again Dan reads: "As our hero realized the fate in store for him, with a mighty effort he burst his bonds," the hero and the girl are bound to a tree. Indians are dancing about and preparing to burn them. The hero breaks his bonds, seizes an Indian, and using him as a club, knocks the other Indians down and escapes. Dan finally reaches the house where the message is to be delivered, still reading. The man kicks him down the steps and the messenger sits on the sidewalk to finish the bloodcurdling story.
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