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The Bar Monologue

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Being so dusty and dry in Texas this time o’ year, I was searchin’ for a place to get myself a drink. I was in a an old town just east of the New Mexico Territory border looking around at all the familiar buildings I have seen many years ago. I finally spot a saloon called “Bull Head” and walk in through the swinging saloon doors. Inside the saloon, it was mostly empty with just two young lookin’ folks sittin’ at a table near the bar and the barkeep behind the bar. I was walkin’ up to the bar when one of the young folk at the table says, “Haven’t I seen you before?”
“Well, I haven’t been ‘round these parts in a long while, just got some business to take care of,” I replied. The other person at the table then blurted out after, “Aren’t you …show more content…

It would be my honor to buy you a drink.”
“And it would be my honor to drink it.”
“Oh, I almost forgot, my name’s Johnny and this here sitting next to me is Bob; and that’s Ben behind the bar.”
The barkeep hands me my drink and I finish it, happily quenching my thirst.
Bob turns to me and says, “Bounty hunter, would you mind telling us all one of your stories?”
“Sure, which one did you have in mind?”
Johnny interrupts, “How about the time when you were jailed but escaped single-handedly and shot your way to safety like it says in this here dime novel?”
“That’s what it says? Well that’s not exactly how it happened. I’ll tell you the real story.”
Johnny looks …show more content…

Anyhow, soon after I wake up, a sheriff comes to my jail cell and tells me that I have been sentenced to execution and it will begin later that day. The sheriff then walks and stop nearby and says the exact same thing to someone else, then I hear Dirty Dan’s voice say a threat. The bandits must’ve captured him too. Later that day, the sheriff comes back, but instead of going to my cell, he goes to Dan’s and I hear the cell opening. The sheriff then walks Dan back and out of my sight, but soon after I hear some rustling and a gunshot. Then Dirty Dan goes to my cell and throws the cell keys through the bars. Dan must’ve worked his magic once again I thought. I unlocked my cell and ran out meeting Dan by the exit of the prison and he hands me a six-shooter. We then escape the area sneaky-like taking out the few folks that got in our way. The escape didn’t matter much for Dirty Dan because he died a few months later, but here I am still alive and

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