Lesson 18: Weak stomaches and good aim doesn't mix.

The pair later found that the town they were heading to was under attack by a group of bandits using an armored steam powered stagecoach to extort the town. The two managed to set up a trap for the next payment and when the contraption rolled into town the next day they were all laying in wait in ambush. They had hidden some sticks of old dynamite in with the money box. The plan was to let the crooks take it into the coach and then open fire, hoping they would run and the ensuing firefight would jostle the unstable TNT enough to set it off. Well the box went in and they both opened fire. The hunter peppered the hull of the coach but three more bandits arrived on horseback and returned fire. The schoolmarm was stationed on top of the saloon and opened fire. Once again with amazingly deadly results. Her first shot took one of the crooks heads clean off. Unfortunatly this was a bad thing. It turns out she also had a weak stomach. The battle continued and the schoolmarm managed to put the other two desparados down, and even managed to wound the coach driver through one of the viewports. By the end of the fight the schoolmarm was out cold. She had fainted from witnessing her own carnage! The exchange went something like this:

"Ok I fire at the other bandit" BLAMM! Well, looks like you blew his arm clean off.
"Oh! Oh my, thats terrible!" she gasped. Take another shot? You're feeling kind of light headed.
"Yes" BLAM! Wow, you put a hole right through the next guy, you remember what you had for lunch because you can taste it again now. The schoolmarm, turning green continued weakly.
"Oh! That is horrible! That is the most awful thing I have ever seen!" Ok your turn again, want to fire? You really are not feeling well and you are not sure how much longer you can keep your lunch down. BLAM! Well you managed to fire right into the viewport and you hear a loud cry from within the vehicle
"OH GOD! MY FACE!! I CANT SEE!!! I CANT SEE!" you manage to catch a glimpse of the mans face as he tries to keep blood out of his one good eye, and covers the ruined one and... yup, thats enough to put you down. And with that the schoolmarm turned white as a ghost, put her hand to her head and said
"Why, I do believe I feel-" Ka-thump!

Italicized Text = Narrator Speaking

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