Calamity Anne's Inheritance - Allan Dwan

Calamity Anne, forty-five years of age, attired in wide slouch hat, short riding skirt, and smoking her everlasting pipe, leaned against a shanty and talked with the Misses Baxter and Barton. Enter young Williams, of the big mining company on the hill. Straight he went to Calamity and handed her a screed entitled: " Calamity: You was good to me once. I'm croakin' and here's my will. I give and bequeath the Black Hole mine to you. Goodbye and good luck, Walleyed Jake." Calamity removed her pipe long enough to utter a wild hurrah. Young Williams wanted to buy the mine but Calamity simply sniffed at him. Calamity with the Misses Baxter and Barton saddled the burro and made off toward fortune, the young Williams gentleman following at a discreet distance, convinced that Calamity sooner or later, would sell her holdings. Arriving at the Black Hole and there with four henchmen was Cal Edwards, dangerous back man with a nervous trigger finger. So Calamity simply took possession of the shack, placed herself in the door, rifle in hand and waited developments. Edwards wanted to parley after he saw the rifle but he finally decided not to wait. Now the Miss Baxter was susceptible to a black mustache, and when Cal Edwards met her the following day outside the shack she promised to remove the dangerous bullets. She did, and Calamity was bodily hauled out of the shack by the pernicious Cal Edwards. Then Edwards promptly snubbed Miss Baxter and trouble started. Then Cal Edwards removed the will and placed it in his back pocket. Then he calmly lit a cigarette and the burro standing just behind him, quietly eyed the Calamity Anne's will, decided it was in the wrong place and gently lifted it from Cal's pocket, eating it the while. In the meantime the more timid Miss Barton had fled and fallen in with the handsome young Williams. With the enemies gone, Miss Baxter rescued the remains of Calamity Anne's will from the burro's throat. Incidentally, " Hell Hath No Furies like a Woman Scorned," etc., for Miss Baxter, smarting under the snub, acquired a pistol and put the entire male element to rout. Calamity Anne decided to accept a check from the handsome young Williams and everything ended happily.