Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1886-11-11
How to Pull a Gun.

81 think the general education Q
Young men is being sadly neglected il
this State, said an old sport in from
OF Sweenys. an every we'll conduc
ted university there should be a pro
lessor to teach the boys the use of tn,
six shooter. There are rules regard.
ing gun-pulling that every Western
man ought to know. just put EN-
down aud publish EN- in your paper
First-Never pull gun.
second-If you do pull, be deaG
sure that the time has come to pull
it.
Third-Pull quick, with no flour
ishes.
Fourth-Keep banging at your
man till he lies down and quits.
These rules ought to be pasted in
every mans hat, If people would
always observe this schedule there
would be a good deal less trouble
Take for instance some young man
who thinks he is insulted and wants
to shoot somebody, or scare somebody
or make general ass of himself. He
takes a step forward with melo-
dramatic stride, strikes position, and
begins to make hourishes for his hip
pocket. Then he pulls his gun and
begins to do filagree work in the air.
While he is doing the scoIlops as if
he were on the stage, the other fellow
quietly pulls, lets go, and sends the
lead through him. Then they pack
Inn to the coroner and find that he
was killed in sell.defence.
Now, you see, if he had observed
rule No. |, he would have been alive
to day, or, after violating rule one, if
he had observed the proposition laid
down in rules three and four he might
have been alive-mebbe, or at least
if he was dead the other fellow might
have been dead too. At least he has
a chance OF securing more points out
Of IL possible two.
A slow handed man had better not
monkey with a border gun. You
must be quick-witted and qnick.mo.
toned. A second isn't long, but it is
about all the margin you can reason
ably expect out West when the street
duel opens. You must be entirely
for yourself have known several
good men to be laid out because they
stopped couple of seconds to calcu-
late if any one in the crowd would
get hit if they fired. The other fell
low ignored the crowd and is alive
and well to,day, holding lucrative
office under the present administra-
ton.
Sometimes you stop TO think of
mans wife and children. This 10
good idea, and speaks well for a mans
humanity, but not 30 much for his
judgment. After you throw your
hand back and touch the handle Of
the gun, it is too late to consider the
woman and the kids. Many 2, man
has considered this before he sent his
hand back and spared many a life
but after the motion TO draw, you
must only think how you can pump
the lead into the other man, for you
can bet high he will begin right away
pumping it into you. If there is
post or dry goods box near, get to it.
You can display lots of nerve stand
ing out in an open space, but you
don't display much sense. A dead
hero isn't much account a few days
after he's dead. Some Of the nerviest
men that ever walked get behind a
post the minute the ball opens. The
best idea is to go without gun at all.
You hardly hear of man getting
SHOT who doesn t have the reputation
of packing guns. If you have no
gun you wont get too sassy, and if
you have little row down town you
amt SO likely to be hauled home on
Bray's express wagon.
If had the say would pass law
abolishing guns (of course, when | use
the word gun, it is the sporting phrase
for six.shooter J but 80 long as guns
20, everybody ought to know some
thing about their use, and more espe-
cially how to use EN-. Carson Ap.
peal.
BgA~ Joe Cook says that if he had