“In one killin’, however, Bill acted a bit hasty, as he admitted his self. One day he called Three-Fingered Ed out of the saloon, sayin’ he’d like to speak with him in private. Bill led Ed out into a back alley, and there they stopped. “‘Say, Ed,’ he says, lookin’ him right in the eye, ‘didn’t you say that Mike said I was a hot-headed, overbearin’ sort of feller?’ “‘Naw,’ says Ed, ‘You mistook me. He never said that.’ “‘Well, doggone,’ says Bill, ‘ain’t that too bad. I’ve gone and killed an innocent man.’ “Well, Lanky, maybe your pa’ll let you come back next fall.” THE END Transcriber’s Note This book was written in a period when many words had not become standardized in their spelling. Words may have multiple spelling variations or inconsistent hyphenation in the text. These have been left unchanged unless indicated below. Words and phrases in italics are surrounded by underscores, _like this_. Footnotes were renumbered sequentially and were moved to the end of the chapter in which the anchor occurs. Obvious printing errors, such as backwards, upside down, missing or partially printed letters and punctuation, were corrected. Descriptors were added to illustrations without captions. The following spelling corrections were made: biggest and the [straighest] straightest we [liked] lacked one man we work the canyon [tomorow] tomorrow I’d jest [made] make him mad the old [traper] trapper