“‘Say, Ed,’ he says, lookin’ him right in the eye, ‘didn’t you say that Mike said I was a hot-headed, overbearin’ sort of feller?’
“‘Naw,’ says Ed, ‘You mistook me. He never said that.’
“‘Well, doggone,’ says Bill, ‘ain’t that too bad. I’ve gone and killed an innocent man.’
“Well, Lanky, maybe your pa’ll let you come back next fall.”
The End
Transcriber’s Note
This book was written in a period when many words had not become standardized in their spelling. Words may have multiple spelling variations or inconsistent hyphenation in the text. These have been left unchanged unless indicated below.
Footnotes were renumbered sequentially and were moved to the end of the chapter in which the anchor occurs. Obvious printing errors, such as backwards, upside down, missing or partially printed letters and punctuation, were corrected.
The following spelling corrections were made:
- biggest and the [straighest] [straightest]
- we [liked] [lacked] one man
- we work the canyon [tomorow] [tomorrow]
- I’d jest[made] [make] him mad
- the old [traper] [trapper]