fter he captures the king in chess. You devious son of a bitch. "Devious" means slightly dishonest, or crafty. "Son of a bitch" is a very common and vulgar term for a mean or abusive man. Well, if you must pry... "To pry" into the affairs of others is to try and learn about their personal life. The Waco Kid; He had the fastest hands in the West. A way that people in the old West referred to those who could shoot guns with great speed and accuracy. Steady as a rock. An expression that means stable, or in this case, without shaking. You were just pulling my lariat. A "lariat" is a lasso, or rope for controlling animals, but this word is never used. "To pull someone’s legs" means to tease, or lie to them. When I say "go," you try to grab it first. A useful verb meaning to take quickly and forcefully. Well raise my rent; You are the kid. In this case, "raise my rent" is Bart’s ridiculous way of saying "that truly is amazing." It got so that every piss-ant prairie punk who thought he could shoot a gun would ride into town to try out the Waco kid. "Piss-ant" is an interesting adjective meaning unimportant or small. A "punk" is a bully or aggressive young person, and in this context, to "try out" the kid is to test him, to see if he’s really so fast with a gun. Cecile B. Demille. A famous movie producer and director in the years after World War 2. It got pretty gritty; I started to hear the word draw in my sleep. "Gritty" means filled with tiny coarse stones, though here it is used to mean unpleasant. "To draw" a gun is to reach for it and shoot it. I spun around. Note the past tense of spin, meaning to turn around in a circle. The little bastard shot me in the ass! "Bastard" is a very common and vulgar word for a mean or abusive man. Your "ass," is, of course, your butt, rear end, derriere, etc… So I limped to the nearest saloon, crawled inside a whiskey bottle, and I’ve been there ever since. "To limp" is to walk unevenly or with great difficulty, a "saloon" is a bar, and "to crawl" is to move on your hands and knees, like a baby. This is Jim’s explanation for how he started to drink so much liquor. What’s a dazzling urbanite like you doing in a rustic settling like this? A "dazzling urbanite" is a charismatic or fascinating city person, and a "rustic setting" is a country environment away from the big city. Note that a great cliché is "What’s a girl like you doing in a place like this?" My folks and I were part of the long wagon train heading west. "Folks" is an old word that is still used to mean both parents and people. A "wagon train" was a series of horse-pulled wagons or vehicles that brought settlers from the Eastern states into the West. We were bringing up the rear. "To bring up the rear" is to be the last
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