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Battles on the waterfront, assassination and counter-assassination by gun-toting goon squads dominated by gangsters, industrial sabotage, frays between pickets and scabs all were common occurrences. But it was the coming of Telly which increasingly brought such conflicts literally before the public eye.
"Be you the sheriff?" "Police. Go to him, Ben!" "No gun," reported Ben after a swift search of the shrinking captive. "I done told you so, didn't I?" "Mighty good thing for you, old rooster. Gun-toting is strictly barred in Las Uvas. You got to take your gun off fifteen minutes after you get in from the road and you can't put it on till fifteen minutes before you take the road again."
So when the Independent's fiery columns came out with red scare heads and gory recital full of reference to "something rotten in the State of Denmark" and "damnable rascality," there was only one emasculated innocuous column given to the local event, but seven columns were steeped with the bloody details of sheep massacres and stock raids and Range Wars in other states in "the good old gun-toting days."
He wrangled over the price but I made him come through." "What does he want done?" "He wants a guy framed. You remember what the bulls did for Big Finnerty, when Finnerty was threatening to squeal to the District Attorney's office about police graft?" Schenk nodded. "They pulled the old stuff on him. Sent him to the Island a year for gun-toting."
The slouch-hatted, gun-toting, beer-drinking, woman- worshiping, man-baiting Brann of Texas may have been the particular and only Brann to have developed the colossal courage and fighting fearlessness that gave his poet's soul the reach and stature, the strength and vigor to raise himself above the mere music of his words.
"Good-evening, grandmother," he returned. Hunt came to his feet, knocking over a chair in so doing, and gripped Larry's hand. "Hello here's our wandering boy to-night! How are you, son?" "First-rate, you old paint-slinger. And you?" "Hitting all twelve cylinders and taking everything on high! But say, listen, youngster: how about your copper friends and those gun-toting schoolmates of yours?"
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