Yep, he pulled his gun and had it damned near clean on Mac Strann before that devil would stir.

But when he _did_, it was jest a flash of light.

Both them guns went off, but Mac's bullet hit Fitz's hand and knocked the gun out of it--so of course his shot went wild.
But Fitz could see his own blood, and you know what that does to the Scotch-Irish?
Makes _some_ people quit cold to see their own blood.

I remember a kid at school that was a whale at fightin' till his nose got to bleedin', or something, and then he'd quit cold.

But you take a Scotch-Irishman and it works just the other way.