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| Trigger, the ever faithful steed
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First hoof inside the Adelphi
Evening Express, Monday March 8th, 1954 | As Roy Rogers and his wife lay in bed with influenza last night they received sympathy straight from the horse’s mouth - a bunch of flowers.
For an hour the horse wandered upstairs and downstairs like Goosey Gander - and finally into his lady’s and master’s chamber.
Some 4,000 of their young subjects , some of them loyal enough to have taken their places early in the afternoon, crowded the pavements of Lime Street and kept up a continual chant, "We want Roy Rogers." But the cowboy was not well enough to oblige them. |
And so his horse, Trigger, did his best to fill the breach. He reared high on his hind legs, took a bow or two outside the Adelphi Hotel and later - the first horse to set a hoof inside - he took more bows from a first floor window as hundreds of watchful boys and girls caught sight of him.
Before that he had made his mark at the registration desk with a pencil clutched between his teeth, and a nonchalance born of practice in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Birmingham.
Then he went at a couple of bounds into the residents’ lounge followed by an entourage of intrigued guests, young excited admirers and reporters attending their oddest Press reception. |
 | | Roy Rogers' annuals were a popular feature of people's Christmas lists for many years. |
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