MEETING THE LONE RANGER
When I was three years old I was on television with my cowboy hero, The Lone
Ranger.
I was very disappointed that I didn't get to meet his sidekick Tonto,
the Indian, who
wasn't in the scenes with us. But the Lone Ranger made it up to me by
giving me thirty
silver bullets. (However my mother made me give 26 of them to a group
of orphans, so
I was only left with four. Even though that was very frustrating, I was
glad that the orphans
had something to console them.) I was the only child who ever was allowed
to hold a gun to
the Lone Ranger. I remember I had to say "Stick 'em up!" and
he actually held his hands up.
I think this must have gone to my head. One day I was watching a fantasy
cowboy on television
and the next day I was holding a gun to him and he was surrendering to
me. He was very
sporting about it.
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