But you see the judge must have lost his wind or something; and I reckon when he tumbled it was something like a faint, you know." "Served him right for engaging in such a brutal contest." "Well, I dunno.

Depends on how you look at such things.

And when that was over, Longfellow entered with Mattie Evelyn.

He kept shooting past her all the time, and this worried her so that she ran a little to one side, and somehow, I dunno how it happened, but his leg tripped her, and she rolled over on the ground, hurt pretty bad, I think, while Longfellow had his leg cut pretty near to the bone." "Did any of the shots strike her ?" "I don't understand you." "You said he kept shooting past her, and I thought maybe some of the bullets might have struck her." "Why, I meant that he _ran_ past her, of course.

How in the thunder could he shoot bullets at her ?" "I thought maybe he had a gun.