A gun is all right in its way, but for work in a crowd, well, give me a hammer and I'll show you a way out." Bud Mansie grinned: "Leave me my pair of sixes and you can have all the hammers between here and Central Park in a crowd.

There's nothing makes a crowd remember its heels like a pair of barking sixes." "Ah, ah!" growled Branch.

"But when they've heard bone crunch under the hammer there's nothing will hold them." "I'd have to see that." "Maybe you will, Bud, maybe you will.

It was the hammer that started me for the trail west.

I had a big Scotchman in the factory who couldn't learn how to weld.