Remember, the man who shoots first comes off with the whole hide.

And keep a constant eye on the grub." "And on the forty-five-nineties," Captain McGregor rumbled back as he passed out the door.
"John Melton--Mr.Melton, sir.

Can he see you ?" "See here, Welse, what's this mean ?" John Melton followed wrathfully on the heels of the clerk, and he almost walked over him as he flourished a paper before the head of the company.

"Read that! What's it stand for ?" Jacob Welse glanced over it and looked up coolly.

"One thousand pounds of grub." "That's what I say, but that fellow you've got in the warehouse says no,--five hundred's all it's good for." "He spoke the truth." "But--" "It stands for one thousand pounds, but in the warehouse it is only good for five hundred." "That your signature ?" thrusting the receipt again into the other's line of vision.
"Yes." "Then what are you going to do about it ?" "Give you five hundred.