When Billy learns of it--which he does from Willyum
himse'f when that infant p'ints in for a visit the day after--he's
as wild as a mountain lion. Billy can't get out none, for his laig
is a heap fragmentary as yet,--'Doby's bullet gettin' all the
results which is comin' that time,--but he sends 'Doby word by
Peets, if he hears of any more punishments bein' meted to Willyum,
he regards it as a speshul affront to him, an' holds 'Doby
responsible personal as soon as he can hobble.
"'Tell him,' says Billy, 'that if he commits any further atrocities
ag'in this innocent Willyum child, I'll shore leave him too dead to
skin.'
"'This yere Billy's gettin' locoed entire,' says Enright, when he's
told of Billy's bluff. 'The right to maul your immediate descendants
that a-way is guaranteed by the constitootion, an' is one of them
things we-alls fights for at Bunker Hill. However, I reckons Billy's
merely blowin' his horn; bein' sick an' cantankerous with his game
knee.'
"Billy gets well after a while, an' him an' 'Doby sorter plans to
avoid each other. Whatever work they puts in on the claim they holds
in partnership, they hires other gents to do. Personal, each works
the claim he holds himse'f, which keeps 'em asunder a whole lot, an'
is frootful of peace.
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