It wouldn't of ended as quick as it did if Doctor Kirby hadn't gone clean crazy.

His back was to the fence, and he cleaned out everything in front of him, and then he give a wild roar jest like a bull and rushed that hull gang--twenty men, they was--with his head down.

He caught two fellers, one in each hand, and he cracked their heads together, and he caught two more, and done the same.

But he orter never took his back away from that fence.

The hull gang closed in on him, and down he went at the bottom of a pile.