... the Hopkinses hired me to exterminate 'em at five dollars a sculp. I don't believe even a Hopkins would pay five dollars for one of their mangy sculps. ...
... what you done! What you mean blattin' out information of sech a private nature? What you talkin' about, anyhow? Well, he says, durin' the three months ...
... The reason I shot everybody's hats off that I met was just to kind of ca'm my nerves, because I was afraid if I didn't cool off some ...
... settled country I'd come into, very mountainous and thick timbered, but purty soon I come to a cabin beside the trail and I pulled up and hollered, Hello! The ...
... the jug to take a snort of it was brim-full, but before I'd more'n dampened my gullet the dern thing was plumb empty. When I got through I went over ...
... which couldn't be persuaded to respect a guest no other way. WELL, THE DUST OF BATTLE hadn't settled, the casualities was groaning all over the place, ...
... every fightin' man of the clan is gatherin' there. All we can do is hold the fort, and you got to come help us hold it! Yo're nigh as big as all four ...
... brush. It was full of horses. We keep our mounts here so's the Barlows ain't so likely to find 'em and run 'em off, she said, and she turned her ...
... else? says he. Lissen here, young man, don't start tellin' me how to conduck a feud. I growed up in this here'n. It war in full swing when I was ...
... get to fighting amongst theirselves and finish each other before the Barlows could git there, I lit out with the boy Bill, which seemed to have considerable ...
... to storm than I'd figgered. I hadn't had no idee in mind when I sot out for the place. All I wanted was to get in amongst them Barlows-I does my ...
... is the only kind of reasoning Cap'n Kidd understands, and got on him and headed for the Barlow hangout. I can think of a lot more pleasant jobs than ...
... man was standing there with his mouth open, too surprized at the racket to do anything. So I takes his rifle away from him and broke the stock off on ...
... a scramble-men cussing and howling and bellering, and rifle-stocks cracking over heads, and the bresh crashing underfoot, and then before I could ...
... force the fightin' too long. You was right. A good offense is the best defense. We didn't kill any of the varmints, wuss luck, he said, but we give ...
... I done the heavin'. His mouth fell open and he looked at me like he'd saw the ghost of Sitting Bull. Breckinridge Elkins! says he. I'm cooked now, for ...
... able to howl like that. But I expect some of 'em would of been hurt if my head and shoulders hadn't kind of broke the fall of the roof and wall-logs. I ...
... of his bellering relatives. Jackson was trying to say something, but I told him I warn't in no mood for perlite conversation and the less he said the ...
... all been off hunting. They've got terrible tempers. But I was always too soft-hearted for my own good. In spite of Dick Jackson's insults ...
... after his birth, Howard remains a seminal figure, with his best work endlessly reprinted. He has been compared to other American masters of the weird, ...