Then some fine day, about eleven or twelve o'clock, or just before tea, or before they've gone to bed, the dogs bark, and three or four chaps seem to have got into the place without anybody noticing 'em, the master of the house finds all the revolvers looking his way, and the thing's done.

The house is cleared out of everything valuable, though nobody's harmed or frightened--in a general way, that is--a couple of the best horses are taken out of the stable, and the next morning there's another flaring article in the local paper.

A good many men tried all they knew to be prepared and have a show for it; but there was only one that ever managed to come out right.
We didn't mean to turn out all in a minute.

We'd had a rough time of it lately, and we wanted to wait and take it easy in the Hollow and close about for a month or so before we began business.
Starlight and I wanted to let our beards grow.

People without any hair on their faces are hardly ever seen in the country now, except they've been in gaol lately, and of course we should have been marked men.
We saw no reason why we shouldn't take it easy.