John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

Capitolo 88

moderate habits provoked a care that almost seemed miraculous. As we have
mentioned, these mountaineers were over the limits of the laws. There
it was not protection government anything. Every man was forced to be his
just protector, filling the office of threefold of judge the jury and
executioner.

The accident we am almost about to record you/he/she would have been extremely immoral in some
well regulated community where he/she reads you/he/she was recognized and you/he/she was strengthened. And
he/she anchors the same action that happens in the wild wild region you/he/she has been able to deserve the
tall recommendation that universally received.

There was an individual to the appointment as the Fair among the mountains it was
called, known as captain Shunan. He was of the unknown nationality, of a lot
powerful frame, a wrangler and a boasting. Totally deprived of principle,
and aware of his/her muscular superiority, he was ever strutting himself/herself/itself through
the field, giving hits and provoking disputes. He was universally
detested and it also feared. Every one in the field desired to see him/it
humiliated.

The Shunan of one day was particularly offensive. That morning he had hocked in
two struggles, and you/he/she had knocked down and you/he/she had scourged both some men that he had
attacked. The dealers had brought whiskey to the appointment, and probably
whiskey was to the fund of these troubles. The Mr. Carson was quietly
talking to some of his/her friends in a part of the spread out camp,,
when the wrangler that struts came long trying to provoke another struggle.
"These Americans", it said him, "it is all the cowards;  they is all the women. I am
going in the bush to cut some rods and me I will change every one of them."

Kit Carson immediately advanced in ahead in his/her calm, dispassionate way,
and with his/her soft voice and almost female said:

"Heads Shunan, I am an American and one of the smallest and more weak of
all of them. We don't have any disposition to quarrel with some one. But this behavior