"I got to hand it to you.

I judged you was just runnin' a windy.

But have you now showed all your little box of tricks ?" "Well, I haven't missed anything--not to speak of--no more than you did," evaded Bill, plainly apprehensive.

"What more do you want ?" Jim chuckled.
"Pausin' lightly to observe that it ought to be easy enough to best you, if we was on horseback--just because you peek at your sights when you shoot--I shall now show you something." A chuck box was propped against the juniper trunk.

From this the Texan produced a horseshoe hammer and the lids from two ten-pound lard pails.
He strode over to where, ten yards away, two young cedars grew side by side, and nailed a lid to each tree, shoulder-high.
"There!" he challenged his opponent.