I ain't got a quick tongue and sharp eyes, and they been treating me like I was a kid all my life.

So I got to do something.

I got to! I ain't got anything agin' you, but you just happen to be the one that I got to fight.

Stand over yonder by that stump.

I'll stand here, and we'll fight fair and square." Pete Reeve obeyed, his movements slow, as if they were the result of hypnotism.