"I'd LIKE to! And I orter, too--a mean skunk!"

     The man on the floor would shrivel up and say, "Oh, please don't, Bill; I hain't ever goin' to tell."

     And every time he said that the man with the lantern would laugh and say:

     "'Deed you AIN'T! You never said no truer thing 'n that, you bet you." And once he said: "Hear him beg! and yit if we hadn't got the best of him and tied him he'd a killed us both. And what FOR? Jist for noth'n. Jist because we stood on our RIGHTS--that's what for. But I lay you ain't a-goin' to threaten nobody any more, Jim Turner. Put UP that pistol, Bill."

     Bill says:

     "I don't want to, Jake Packard. I'm for killin' him--and didn't he kill old Hatfield jist the same way--and don't he deserve it?"

     "But I don't WANT him killed, and I've got my reasons for it."

     "Bless yo' heart for them words, Jake Packard! I'll never forgit you long's I live!" says the man on the floor, sort of blubbering.