half-painter

Updated: April 30, 2025

"Half-buffalo, half-painter, an' other half crocodile. He's wuss than a half-breed Apache, an would as soon shoot a man as to drink, an' Swanson's a right powerful punisher of the whisky-jug." "Yes! yes! I know all that, but is he cunning, shrewd, sharp, you know?" "Got eyes like an Injun, ears like a coyote an' a nose sharp as a gopher snake."

A. Frank [pseud.] Pinkerton - Jim Cummings : Or, The Great Adams Express Robbery