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Updated: June 8, 2025
It's up to us to fight our way out." He took careful aim and fired. A man in the bushes two hundred yards back of them scuttled to his feet and ran limping off. Billie covered the dodging man with his rifle carefully, then lowered his gun without firing. "Let him go," said Prince aloud. "Mr. Dumont won't bother us a whole lot. He's gun-shy anyhow." From across the river came a scatter of bullets.
Vendenning was laughing; so was Rena Bonnesdel looking over Quarrier's shoulder at a card he was holding not one of the "hand"-decorated, but a sheet of note-paper containing a drawing of a man rushing after a gun-shy dog.
For thirst in the desert carries the pangs of several deaths death from fire, suffocation, and insanity. No wonder the three scowled at Hal Sinclair when he drew his revolver. "My horse is gun-shy," he said, "but I'll bet the rest of you I can drill a horn off that skull before you do." Of course it was a foolish challenge. Lowrie was the gun expert of the party.
"Take Enright or Peets or Cherokee or Tutt or Jack Moore or Boggs or Texas Thompson; you're plumb safe with sech gents all or any. An' yet thar ain't the first glimmer of bein' gun-shy about one of 'em; they're as clean strain as the eternal granite, an' no more likely to hide out from danger than a hill.
Get ready!" He brought a Colt smoothly into his hand and balanced it dexterously, swinging it back and forth between his eyes and the target to make ready for a snap shot. "Ready!" cried Hal Sinclair excitedly. Lowrie's gun spoke first, and it was the only one that was fired, for Sinclair's horse was gun-shy indeed.
I'm going to be a hit in society and forget all my friends and everything down here and roll in that money like a pinto in the pasture. I wish to goodness that I was dead!" "No, you don't," Sallie retorted comfortably. "You're just beginning to take notice, that's all, and so's he. He ain't saddle-broke yet and he's gun-shy, but he'll get used to the report o' that money o' yours in time.
"So Roberts wrote, asking what time he was to have the car at the door after breakfast. It was careless of me." The guest did not answer. But when Bruce presently returned, this time with no paper in his collar-ring, the officer passed his hand appraisingly through the dog's heavy coat and looked keenly down into his dark eyes. "Gun-shy?" asked the guest. "Or perhaps he's never heard a gun fired?"
Yes, sir; the day when the grizzly b'ar will stand without hitchin' has deeparted the calendar a whole lot. They no longer attempts insolent an' coarse familiar'ties with folks. Instead of regyardin' a rifle as a rotton cornstalk in disguise, they're as gun-shy as a female institoote.
The band's getting in line. Hurry up! Hurry up!" Then Billy spoke. His voice came, shaky, as in the old, gun-shy days; but quietly as he spoke, the words seemed to reach across the whole station platform. "Boys! Oh, boys! There's poor Jack Morrison's wife and the little lad he sent his love to!" The crowd hushed its gay clamor and every head turned towards the woman in black and the chubby child.
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