Quotation from: The Valley of the Moon

Written by: Jack London


"The white men couldn't do a thing. If they rushed out to save
the girls, they'd be finished, an' then the Indians'd rush the
train. It meant death to everybody. But what does old Susan do,
but get out an old, long-barreled Kentucky rifle. She rams down
about three times the regular load of powder, takes aim at a big
buck that's pretty busy at the torturin', an' bangs away. It
knocked her clean over backward, an' her shoulder was lame all
the rest of the way to Oregon, but she dropped the big Indian
deado. He never knew what struck 'm.

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