Out In All Weathers

By Kathy Savige

Last week was a horrible one for five of our favourite riders. On each weekday a rider met with a different danger and suffered with different types of weather. Can you identify what troubles met each rider on which day?

The most hair-raising adventure of the week came on Friday when a rider arrived back at the waystation bruised all over from being tossed about by the edge of a tornado; this was not the same day that Jimmy was on duty.

Kid's ride started at 6.00 am Wednesday morning.

The hail came the day after Cody delivered a message for Col. Fenton at Ft. Laramie.

The buffalo stampede occured the day after one rider met a crazy prospector who tried to shoot him.

Buck was fortunate to get away from a group of Cheyenne warriors the day before the first snow of winter came.

The encounter with a rattlesnake was on Monday, which was not the day a rider got soaked by torrential rain.

Ike was not the rider who had to avoid the bear.

Riders: Buck, Kid, Jimmy, Cody, and Ike

Dangers: Buffalo stampede, Cheyenne warriors, bear, mad prospector, rattlesnake

Weather: hail, snow, thunderstorm, tornado, rain

Days: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday.

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So this is how you work it out:

From clue 1, we know that Jimmy wasn't on duty on Friday, not did he see the tornado. Neither did Kid (Clue 2).

Work out what happened on Monday. It couldn't have snowed, hailed, had a tornado, nor did it rain, so the bad weather must have been the thunderstorm., and we know the rider encountered the rattlesnake on Monday. This couldn't have been Kid, or Buck, because he was chased by Indians.

Do the same for Friday. Neither Cody, Kid, Jimmy or Buck rode, so it must have been Ike who encountered the tornado. As Buck could not have ridden on Monday (rattlesnake), Wednesday (Kid), or Friday (Ike), it must have been Tuesday or Thursday, but we know the snow didn't come on Friday, so he must have ridden on Tuesday, the snow coming on Wednesday for the Kid to ride through. Cody couldn't have ridden on Thursday either, so he must have avoided the rattlesnake on Monday, with Buck riding through the hail from the Cheyenne. This leaves Jimmy to ride on Thursday.

Ike couldn't have met the rattlesnake, Cheyenne or bear, and he rode on Friday, so he must have run into the buffalo stampede, so Jimmy's Thursday run had him nearly get shot by the prospector in the rain. Kid met the bear.

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