If serious trouble did come up, it was settled then and there quickly and decisively, wrongly or rightly.
Let me instance a case.
In round-up camp one day a few hot words were suddenly heard, guns began to play, result--one man killed outright and two wounded.

The case of one of the wounded boys was rather peculiar.

His wound was in the thigh and amputation was necessary.

Being a general favourite, we, myself and partners, took turns nursing him, dressing his wounds and cheering him up as well as we could.

He rapidly recovered, put on flesh and was in high spirits, and, as the doctor said, quite out of danger; but one day this big strong young fellow took it into his foolish head that he was going to die.