02772cam a22004093u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003704000110007804100170008905000070010610000430011324500270015626400510018330000470023433600260028133700260030733800360033349000680036950000310043750800540046852013080052253400670183065300200189765300340191765300240195165300300197565300550200565300500206065300520211083000680216285600700223085600430230099900190234378719UtSlPG20260610134827.0mcr n260607r20261917utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  aUtSlPG 7aen2iso639-1 4aPS1 aTuttle, W. C.q(Wilbur C.),d1883-196910aPrecedents in Piperock 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2026  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier1 aProduced from the November 3, 1917 issue of Adventure magazine.  aRelease date is 2026-05-21  aPrepared by volunteers at BookCove (bookcove.net)  aPrecedents in Piperock by W. C. Tuttle is a humorous Western short story written in the early 20th century. It follows a rowdy cow-town’s attempt at a “safe and sane” Fourth of July celebration—a speech, a balloon ascension, and a baseball game—that predictably erupts into comic bedlam.

Told by genial cowhand Ike Harper, the tale tracks Sheriff Magpie Simpkins’s reformist plans colliding with the antics of hard-drinking pranksters Dirty Shirt Jones and Scenery Sims. Judge Steele’s big oration is derailed when the balloon, sabotaged by the pair, drags the speaker’s platform down the street and knocks Ike cold. Revived, Ike is roped into umpiring the Seven-A vs. Triangle ballgame despite not knowing the rules, while the gin-soaked judge quietly nudges calls in favor of his bets. Mishaps pile up: a dog mauls the ball, Weinie Lopp smashes it in half, and Ike declares a ludicrous final score of “one and a half to one.” Chaos crescendos as Dirty and Scenery hitch a wagon to the balloon, hauling Ike along until he bails out in the hills. There he finds the ruined balloonist and, out of battered conscience, pays him the disputed stake money—only to be pelted with a rock when he repeats the hated phrase “safe and sane.” (This is an automatically generated summary.)  pOriginally published:cNew York, NY: The Ridgway Company, 1917  aWestern stories  aBalloon ascensions -- Fiction  aBaseball -- Fiction  aFourth of July -- Fiction  aSimpkins, Magpie (Fictitious character) -- Fiction  aHarper, Ike (Fictitious character) -- Fiction  aPiperock (Montana : Imaginary place) -- Fiction 0aProduced from the November 3, 1917 issue of Adventure magazine.4 uhttps://s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com/luminist/PU/ADV_1917_11_03.pdf40uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78719  c119437d119437