44-colt's

Updated: April 30, 2025

The interior was dark, in spite of the wood fire in the big stone fireplace. Strings of herbs and red-pepper pods and twisted tobacco hung from the ceiling and down the wall on either side of the fire; and in one corner, near the two beds in the room, hand-made quilts of many colours were piled several feet high. From the mantel the butt of a big 44-Colt's revolver protruded ominously.

John Fox - The Trail of the Lonesome Pine