Nine points in the law

· 1969

Noah and Barnum had nothing on Piperock when the animals came two by two and the cowpunchers put on their own circuis. “Yo’re right,” agrees Magpie Simpkins. “As long as a man minds his own dang business around here his life just fleets. But any old time he horns in on somethin’ that don’t concern him his life assumes a muzzle-velocity of somethin’ like five thousand feet per second, duly describes the usual arc and hits the dirt with a dull thud.”…

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