monkey-motions

Updated: June 25, 2025

I tell you, Lidgerwood, you've got to heel yourself when you live in a gun country. I said I wouldn't do it, but I have done it, and I'll tell you right now, when anybody in this blasted desert makes monkey-motions at me, I'm going to blow the top of his head off, quick." Lidgerwood's gaze was resting on the little drawer in his desk which now contained nothing but a handful of loose cartridges.

Francis Lynde - The Taming of Red Butte Western