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No! I won’t shoot first, ’less he starts it! But I’m a-goin’ to keep my eyes glued on him, an’ the first suspicious move he makes [he pats the handle of his pistol caressingly] one or t’other of us ’ll be buzzards’ meat!

[Insinuatingly]

That’s all right—if he don’t take a crack at you from the bushes!

[''It has grown suddenly darker. A gust of wind strikes the house, followed by thunder and lightning. and  enter from kitchen''.]

Andy, looks like it’s a-tunin’ up fer a reg’lar harrycane! What do you say to havin’ your horse put up an’ stayin’ a while longer?

No, I guess I’ll be movin’ along.

You might jist as well stay.

Yeh, why not?