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Updated: June 19, 2025
There had not been any Pete Leddy; there had been no display of six-shooters. He had gone in after the mail. Here he was ready to deliver it by the bushel, while he waited for orders. She had to laugh at his predicament as he lowered his chin to steady a book on the top of the pile. "Oh, I meant to tell you that you were not to bring the second-class matter!" she told him.
As no response was forthcoming to this defiance, he went into the other room to arrange the preliminaries of the duel. A few moments passed in silence, and then he came back through the lane of men to the two combatants. "Jedge," he began, "the six-shooters are there, all ready.
Before entering he examined carefully both of his long-barreled forty-fives. He made sure that the six-shooters were in perfect order and that they rested free in the holsters. That sixth sense acquired by "bad men," by means of which they sniff danger when it is close, was telling him that smoke would rise before he left the house. He stepped to the porch and knocked.
But on general principles it seemed wise to learn all he could concerning the particular tract of land about which Florence Grace Hallman had talked. The day was past when range rights might be defended honorably with rifles and six-shooters and iron nerved men to use them and I fear that Andy Green sighed because it was so.
"For God's sake the posse " but before he could finish, a troop of men, armed with six-shooters and Winchester rifles, burst from the cover of bushes that lined the highroad. "There he is yonder, boys, behind that man!" cried their leader excitedly, a small, thick-set, broad-shouldered man with sandy hair and beard and florid complexion.
Musical tones, rising and falling in weird octaves, whining pityingly, diabolically, sobbing in a fascinating monotone and slobbering in ragged chords, calling as they swept over the plain, always calling and exhorting, they mingled in barbaric discord with the defiant barks of the six-shooters and the inquiring cracks of the Winchesters.
But what could he do? I had the rifle, and we neither of us had any six-shooters. I showed him that there was no object in my shooting him, while he would gain by shooting me, so I proposed to hold the gun. And hold it I did. On my return I put a notice of seizure on the poles. "The report went through the usual way to the Commissioner of the General Land Office.
'Young man, said the doctor, with a quiet wink, this lady is under my protection. The fourteenth amendment don't apply to you nor me. Six-shooters, however, make us equal. Are you armed? "'I am, sir. "'Unfortunately, I am not. Will you kindly excuse me, say ten minutes? "'Certainly, sir, with pleasure. "'There are ladies present, he observed. 'Let us retire.
Our horses trembled with fear, unsteady on their feet. The very sky overhead darkened as if night was falling. Two thirds of the men threw themselves in the lead of the beeves, firing six-shooters to check them, which could not even be heard by the ones on the flank and in the rear. Once the herd drifted against a wire fence, leveled it down and moved on, sullen but irresistible.
If you want to die with terror, look at me. I'm chain-lightnin' As they came abreast the constable held out his hand and the pair automatically laid six-shooters in it and went on without stopping in their song: if I ain't, may I be blessed. I'm a snorter of the boundless, lone prairee. Other citizens than the barber recognized the voices, and frowned or smiled as happened, among whom was Mr.
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