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By Jack Joseph Smith

Prankster's Dream of a Gallant Death A Rememberance of the Blackman He was sitting on a rock in front of a cave. His cave. It was twenty feet or so from the top of a dark green, black aqua like, mountain. He had rocks strapped to his chest, and then enough iron mask covering his face, secured also by wire twist turned at the back of his head. He had plates too on his shins, but his hands were bare holding two long barreled western pistols. HE had been firing them through the afternoon and just Like the movies, they never ran out of bullets; the Eight men below, with whom he was engaged in battle did not wear uniforms, but as yet in his dream their faces had not been seen. The rocks around him had been chipped by the firing and his mind had been hammered through the day, but not blown away. HE breathed deep, And stayed steady on his rock seat he saw and felt himself so beautifully entranced upon.

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This page opens a dreamlike western siege scene in which Prankster appears masked and armored on a mountain above eight unseen enemies.

Its imagery is part movie, part fever vision. The corrected transcript makes the fantasy more theatrical and armored: rocks are strapped to his chest, plates cover his shins, and the pistols never run out of bullets.

Claude

Prankster's Dream of a Gallant Death / A Rememberance of the Dutchman - sitting on a rock in front of his cave twenty feet from a dark green aqua-like mountain top, iron mask wire-twisted at the back of his head, bare hands holding two long western pistols, empty men below without uniforms whose faces are not yet seen, rocks chipped by firing, breathing deep on his beautiful rock seat. Opening of the mesa-siege dream.