‘Did you hear?! Not only did I double what I spent last year, Peter Glen said he’d be interested in studding Firebrick to Maddy!’ He was so exci...ed that he was almost jumping up and down. ‘That’s great! Who got into the war?’ I loved how close we were and wanted to make it last longer. He put his arm around me and led me towards the front of the barn. ‘Do you remember the fat old bastard that said he won’t pay 2 bits for a horse of Dad’s? Seems he’s had a change of heart. Peter wasn’t too happy. She and I had become friends, and we would go to lunch together. We had started working out at the local recreation center together, around about my birthday. Which was a couple months before Tadd’s. She had been dating a guy that she was really into, but one night they had a bad argument, and I am not sure what happened, but he got violent. He punched her, and beat on her. I got a call from the Emergency Room. I went to the hospital to see her that night.The police said they had caught him. . Bitch! ... Those pistols were fantastic! I could shoot without a separate motion ta cock the hammer—that was what was meant by "double-action."The other big deal about these revolvers over the Colts was that there was a way to carry them with all six chambers loaded without the danger of accidentally shooting the pistol. I did have ta learn a new way ta change cylinders, but I liked that top-break feature once the screw was removed. It was almost as fast as changin' the cylinder in a Colt,. The girls were all peeking at him and waving and generally makingasses of themselves. All I could do was refuse to look his way and blush likea virgin bride. And he thought the whole thing was funny. You could just seeit on his face. Finally, it was time to clear out. All the dessert plates had been lickedclean. The Irish coffees were drained to the dregs. And the poor waiter hadbeen flirted with and propositioned until he was terrified to come take ourmoney. Even the Hunter had gone on to.