Besides, what good is it goin' to do you to find the dog ?" "If you hurt a man's dog," explained Mac Strann calmly, "you're hurting the man, ain't you?
I'm going to hurt this man's dog; afterwards the dog'll bring the man to me.

They ain't no doubt of that.

I ain't goin' to kill the dog.

I'm goin' to jest nick him so's he'll get well and then hit my trail." "What sense is they in that ?" "If Barry comes to me, ain't he the one that's breakin' the law?
If I kill him then, won't it be in self-defense?
I ain't no law-breaker, Haw-Haw.

It ain't any good bein' a law-breaker.