(To show the hand of six-shooter.)] As an instance of quick shooting, two of our neighbours had threatened to kill each other at sight: and we were all naturally interested in the results.

When the meeting did take place, quite unpremeditated, no doubt, each man saw the other about the same instant, but one of them was just a little the quicker, and put a bullet through his enemy's heart.

It was a mortal wound of course; but before the unlucky man fell he was also able to "get his work in," and both fell dead at the same instant.

This was no duel.

The first to fire had the advantage, but the "dead" man was too quick for him, and he did not escape.