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[Determann M. <he...@uk...>]

 that I was mad, and _anybody_ would have done it. Well, when I make up
my mind to hit a man, I don't plan out a love-tap; no, that isn't my
way; as long as I'm going to hit him at all, I'm going to hit him a
lifter. And I don't jump at him all of a sudden, and risk making a
blundering half-way business of it; no, I get away off yonder to one
side, and work up on him gradually, so that he never suspects that I'm
going to hit him at all; and by and by, all in a flash, he's flat on his
back, and he can't tell for the life of him how it all happened. That is
the way I went for brother Dowley. I started to talking lazy and
comfortable, as if I was just talking to pass the time; and the oldest
man in the world couldn't have taken the bearings of my starting place
and guessed where I was going to fetch up: "Boys, there's a good many
curious things about law, and custom, and usage, and all that sort of
thing, when you come to look at it; yes, and about the drift and
progress of human opinion and movement, too. There are written laws-