02859cam a22003973u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003704000110007804100170008905000070010610000430011324500280015626400510018430000470023533600260028233700260030833800360033449000650037050000310043550800540046652014680052053400630198865300180205165300200206965300550208965300500214465300520219465300210224683000650226785600670233285600430239999900190244278219UtSlPG20260610134819.0mcr n260607r20261916utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  aUtSlPG 7aen2iso639-1 4aPS1 aTuttle, W. C.q(Wilbur C.),d1883-196910aFor the love of Annibel 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2026  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier1 aProduced from the November 1916 issue of Adventure magazine.  aRelease date is 2026-03-16  aPrepared by volunteers at BookCove (bookcove.net)  aFor the love of Annibel by W. C. Tuttle is a humorous Western short story written in the early 20th century. Set in the rough little town of Piperock, it pokes fun at “home-talent” theatricals, as local pride, jealousies, and bad luck—plus one infamously ornery horse—turn a simple stage melodrama into comic bedlam.

Narrated by dry-witted cowhand Ike Harper, the tale begins when his towering pardner Magpie Simpkins decides to become an actor after Madame Della Selva arrives to stage a play in the Mint dance hall. Casting churns up rivalries and absurdities: Judge Steele becomes Annibel’s father, Tellurium Woods is inked into permanent blackface, Slim Hawkins supplants Magpie as romantic lead, and the villain role lands on Magpie—while a notorious bucker, old Squaw, is chosen as the onstage racehorse. On opening night the set wobbles, whiskers slip, the pump collapses, and drunken Cobalt Williams leans on everything that won’t hold him—until Squaw explodes into a ferocious bucking spree that wrecks the stage and panics the crowd; a stray shot shatters the lights and the audience stampedes. In the aftermath they drag Cobalt from under a smashed sidewalk and learn he had “doctored” Squaw with carbon bisulfide, inflaming the chaos that Magpie had half a mind to cause anyway. The story closes with a shrug and a wisecrack, the wrecked show leaving only laughter and bruises behind. (This is an automatically generated summary.)  pOriginally published:cNew York: The Ridgway Company, 1916  aShort stories  aWestern stories  aSimpkins, Magpie (Fictitious character) -- Fiction  aHarper, Ike (Fictitious character) -- Fiction  aPiperock (Montana : Imaginary place) -- Fiction  aPlays -- Fiction 0aProduced from the November 1916 issue of Adventure magazine.4 uhttps://s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com/luminist/PU/ADV_1916_11.pdf40uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78219  c118939d118939