"Which of course any gent's credit is good at the bar that a-way;
an' so a small delegation of three ropes up this yere Curly Bill an'
brings him back to the hurdy-gurdy, where he gets his gun ag'in, an'
Slim Jim an' him makes up.
"'Which I renounces all idee of ever seein' you dance some,' says
Curly Bill, when he an' Jim shakes; 'an' I yereby marks your
moccasins plumb off my list of targets.'
"Everybody's pleased at this; an' the barkeep is delighted speshul,
as one of them reeconciliations that a-way is mighty condoosive to
the sale of nose-paint. I'm yere to remark, if thar ain't no more
reeconciliations on earth, an' everybody stands pat on them hatreds
an' enmities of his, whiskey-drinkin' falls off half.
"I only su'gest this turn-up with Curly Bill to 'lustrate that it's
about as I says, an' that while Slim Jim's reluctant an' hesitatin'
in the presence of wild steers, an' can't adhere to a pony much,
this yere girlishness don't extend to men none; which last he faces
prompt an' willin' as a lion.
"Thar's times when I shorely ponders the case of this Slim Jim a
mighty sight, 'cause he keeps strikin' me as a good gent gone bad,
an' as bein' the right gent in the wrong place.
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