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Show Well, I told Emmett, if that's the way he's goin' to act, I'd show him a thing or two. I snapped the reins and drove the wagon out of one track, leavin' half the road open. Then I jumped down, unhitched, and started a fire for a meal. With that, a voice across from me began to bellow! There, with her head stickin' out from the canvas, was a woman with blaze-red hair and no teeth. If'n I had thought a man was a good cusser, I learned something that day. That a woman could do it so well came as a shock to my system. Immediately I hitched up Emmett and pulled out. "You win," I called to the man. "You've got four jacks and a queen!" After that embroilment in New Mexico, Emmett an' me thought we'd like Oklahoma better. It was there we met a man named Heck Doolin. Heck was famous around those parts for two things. One, he had dodged the tax collector for nigh on to six months, and, two, he had a mule named Sadie, and a meaner mule, it was said, a meaner mule had yet to be born. The.mule would pretend to be asleep, for instance, and when you'd get by her, she'd kick tarnation out of you. After a while Heck couldn't take Sadie any longer. He brung |