Book Excerpt for the Day

    I’d heard a deputy was killed yesterday,” said Buntline.  “I didn’t know you were there.”

    “I can’t spend all my time drinking in the hotel,” replied Holliday easily.

    “And the Kid gunned him down?”

    Holliday nodded.  “He’s got a temper, and the deputy was too stupid to realize it.”

    “You make it sound like the deputy’s fault,” noted Buntline.

    “If you taunt a mountain lion and the lion attacks, whose fault is it?” asked Holliday.

    “Does the lion know right from wrong?” interjected Edison.

    (from The Doctor and the Kid by Mike Resnick)

    7*/10.  The complete review is here.

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