To Chic Silber

Scan13270, a photo by bucklesw1 on Flickr. On the subject of guns, we had a carpenter on the Kelly-Miller show years ago, an old time cowboy named Jack Wright who built himself a camper mounted on a pick-up truck with an overhanging bed similar to the one we had 20 years later as seen above. One day he parked it next to the cook house and from the candy butcher's table we got this same view of Jack in repose. Suddenly a beef arose, Blackie Woods came storming up to the camper to avenge his daughter's honor. He yelled "I know what you've been saying about Frankie Lou, are you coming out of there or do I have to come in? The cook house was completely silent. "All right I'm coming in after you!" Blackie put his foot on the step and Jack calmly reached under his pillow and pulled out a pistol similar to the one you described and said, "Take one more step and I"ll pop this cap at you." Being in the line of fire the butcher's table erupted, people scrambling every direction. Later I heard someone ask a shaken Blackie why he hadn't gone inside and he explained that he would have but had suffered a temporary heart attack. That made two of us.