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The Covered Wagon

CHAPTER IX
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Banion evaded and swung into a hip lock, so swift that Woodhull left the ground.

But his instinct gave him hold with one hand at his enemy's collar.

He spread wide his feet and cast his weight aside, so that he came standing, after all.

He well knew that a man must keep his feet.

Woe to him who fell when it all was free! His own riposte was a snakelike glide close into his antagonist's arms, a swift thrust of his leg between the other's--the grapevine, which sometimes served if done swiftly.
It was done swiftly, but it did not serve.


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