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 to him and started him upon a risin' path wot has led him to bein' City Marshal in this noble and rising City in the south of the Panhandle. I tell you it's a fair row-mance. A row-mance is wot it is, worthy of print." "I'd admire to hev Ginger Gillett's life wrote up," said Jack Gray. "It would ekal, or a'most ekal, the story of the James Brothers."

"And on top of that, it would be much more moral and improvin'," said Pillsbury. "The James, and you hev to own it, was a devastatin' crowd, and peace never flourished where they abounded; but since Ginger's took hold of Painted Rock, we've had peace for weeks at a time, whole weeks with never a gun pulled, and difficulties smoothed over that in bigger cities than this would hev led to a boom in coffins and coffin fixin's. Why, I've not hed occasion to as much as look at a man crooked for a'most a month. The moral improvement in Painted Rock hez no parallel since Dodge City secured havin' the railroad by becomin' moral in a week by city ordinance; which led to cruelty to gamblers. Sudden