Quotation from: Elsinore

Written by: Jack London


I must have missed Steve Roberts that first time, but I came so near
him that he jumped. The next instant he had located me and turned
his revolver on me. But he had no chance. My little automatic was
discharging as fast as I could tickle the trigger with my fore-
finger. The cowboy's first shot went wild of me, because my bullet
arrived ere he got his swift aim. He swayed and stumbled backward,
but the bullets--ten of them--poured from the muzzle of my Winchester
like water from a garden hose. It was a stream of lead I played upon
him. I shall never know how many times I hit him, but I am confident
that after he had begun his long staggering fall at least three
additional bullets entered him ere he impacted on the deck. And even
as he was falling, aimlessly and mechanically, stricken then with
death, he managed twice again to discharge his weapon.

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