My God, boys, I couldn't help it! He pulled a gun on me.

Yuh saw it on the ground there, right where he dropped it." Billy turned clear around and looked again at the Pilgrim, and the Pilgrim met his eyes defiantly before he turned away.
"I understood yuh to say it was a knife," he remarked slowly.
The Pilgrim swung back again.

"I didn't--or, if I did, I was rattled.
It was a gun--that gun on the ground.

He met me there and started a row and said he'd fix me.

He pulled his gun, and I made a grab for it and it went off.