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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Wyoming by William MacLeod Raine: "Oh, y'u don't need votes. Just get the King to O. K. your
nomination and y'u'll win in a walk."
"My friend, y'u better mind your own business. Far as I can make
out y'u got troubles enough of your own," retorted the nettled
sheriff.
"Y'u don't need to tell me that, Tom Burns' Y'u ain't a
man--nothing but a stuffed skin worked by a string. When that
miscreant Bannister pulls the string y'u jump. He's jerked it
now, so y'u're taking us back to him. I can prove that coyote
Morgan shot at me first, but that doesn't cut any ice with you."
"What made you light out so sudden, then?" demanded the aggrieved
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