Offended.
Insulted Montanian (to tenderfoot newspaper correspondent)—Lookee here, young man, you want to be a little more keerful how you write things that ain't so to them newspapers back East. This is a high-toned town, by Jinks, and the boys won't stand it.
Terrified Tenderfoot—Why, I—I—what have I written?
"Why, you writ to a Chicago paper that we lynched thirteen men here last month, and it's a lie."
"I—I—thought it was true, or—I——"
"Well, it wasn't. We didn't lynch but twelve, and we only rid the other on a rail and peppered him a little with buckshot. Stick to facts, young man, that's all we ask of you."
—Time.