Didn't you hear me say so?
I'm the Ring Tailed Panther, an' I can whip anything livin', man or beast, lion or grizzly bear.

That's why I'm the Ring Tailed Panther." "Happy to know you, Mr.Ring Tailed Panther," said Ned, "and having no quarrel with you we don't wish to fight you." The man laughed, his broad face radiating good humor.
"And I don't want to fight you, either," he said, "'cause all of us have got to fight somebody else.

See here, your name's Obed an' yours is Ned, and that's what I'm goin' to call you.

No Mistering for me.

It don't look well for a Ring Tailed Panther to be givin' handles to people's names." "Ned and Obed it is," said Ned with warmth.
"Then, Ned an' Obed, it's Mexicans.