Excerpt: ...prove that I am the best man, that's what I'll do! I'll pile 'em in the coach and lug 'em with me!" grabbing, as he finished, one of the men by the foot and dragging him toward the stage. It took The Orphan and Shields several strenuous minutes to dissuade him from his purpose. Shields placed his fingers on the bones of Bill's hand in a peculiar grip, and the driver loosened his hold without loss of time. "You go back to town and get fixed up," ordered the sheriff. "I'll take your team out of this and turn them ...
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Excerpt: ...prove that I am the best man, that's what I'll do! I'll pile 'em in the coach and lug 'em with me!" grabbing, as he finished, one of the men by the foot and dragging him toward the stage. It took The Orphan and Shields several strenuous minutes to dissuade him from his purpose. Shields placed his fingers on the bones of Bill's hand in a peculiar grip, and the driver loosened his hold without loss of time. "You go back to town and get fixed up," ordered the sheriff. "I'll take your team out of this and turn them around, and then come back for you. Charley can make the trip if you can't. I would do it myself, only I've got to tell Sneed that he's shy four more men." "I'll turn 'em around myself-I ain't hurt," asserted Bill with decision. "And when I get patched up I'll make the trip, Pop Westley or no Pop Westley. And I'll lick the whole blamed town, too, if they get fresh about my face! I'm a 202 fighter from Fightersville, I am! I'm a man-eating bad-man, I am! I can lick anything that ever walked on hind legs, I can!" and he glared as if anxious to prove his words. After the cowboys regained consciousness and got so they could stand, the sheriff lined them up with their backs to the wall and gave them the guns which The Orphan had obtained for him. The outlaw held them covered while the sheriff told them what they were, and he wound up his lecture with instructions and a warning. "Get out of this country and don't never come back!" he told them. "I don't care where you go, so long as you go right now. If you even show your faces in these parts again I'll shoot first and talk after." "Same here!" endorsed The Orphan, frowning down his desire to laugh at the wrecks in front of him. "I'll kill you next time!" shouted...
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Very Good in Good jacket. Book. 12mo-over 6¾-7¾" tall. Unmarked, clean and solid copy. Dj bright, missing about two inches on bottom of spine and now in a protective mylar jacket.
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Used-Very Good. VG hardback in good dust jacket. 19th Impression. H&S Yellow Jacket series. Red cloth, small patch of fading at base of spine. Pages neat & well preserved. Dust jacket not price clipped; faded on spine; light shelf wear to edges; jacket covered with removable clear film.
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