Part 8. by Mark Twain]@TWC D-Link book Part 8. 6/51 You see how I am situated--now don't put those pistols so close--I smell the powder. If I had four hands--so that I could hold up two and--" "Throttle him! Gag him! Kill him!" "Gentlemen, don't! Nobody's watching the other fellow. Ouch! Take it away, please! "Gentlemen, you see that I've got to hold up my hands; and so I can't take out my money--but if you'll be so kind as to take it out for me, I will do as much for you some--" "Search him Beauregard--and stop his jaw with a bullet, quick, if he wags it again. Help Beauregard, Stonewall." Then three of them, with the small, spry leader, adjourned to Mike and fell to searching him. |