• PhilipTheBucket@quokk.auOP
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    5 days ago

    31:27:

    "I blew my bugle until a good-sized crowd had gathered. ‘Ladies and gents,’ I bellowed out in frustration. You see before you a poor plain honest itinerant tooth-hoister hounded like a criminal by the ethical dentists to this godless wilderness. And what for? Because I dared to cut prices and advertise.’

    "At that moment a pistol shot from the back row lifted my top hat from my head. [That was bullet hole number three.]

    “‘I’m Parson JB Towers,’ shouted the marksman, waving a huge shooting iron. ‘And I don’t aim to hear this fair territory called godless by little runs in the pay of Satan!’”