But Bowlaigs quits game; he turns with a warwhoop an' confers on the Major a swat that would have broke the back of a bronco; an' then he dies with his teeth in the Major's neck.
"The Major only lives a half hour after we gets thar.

An' it's to his credit that he makes a statement exoneratin' Bowlaigs.

'I don't want you-all gents,' says the Major, 'to go deemin' hard of this innocent b'ar, for whatever fault thar is, is mine.

Since Texas Thompson picks up that dollar, this thing is made plain.

What I takes for gratooitous wickedness on Bowlaigs' part is nothin' but his efforts to execoote my desires.