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    Heart Of A Lawman
    Heart Of A Lawman
    Heart Of A Lawman
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    Heart Of A Lawman

    By Darrel Bird

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    Young John Shay leaves his home in Kentucky to go west. He runs into trouble as he makes the journey. He finds his calling as he observes the injustice of a lawless land, he joins with an old sheriff in Wyoming territory to bring murderers to justice six gun style.
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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDarrel Bird
    Release dateMay 29, 2011
    ISBN9781458160249
    Heart Of A Lawman
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    Darrel Bird

    Darrel Bird has written and published 47 short stories. He attended Bakersfield college, and is an avid motorcyclist.

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      Heart Of A Lawman - Darrel Bird

      Heart of a Lawman

      By

      Darrel Bird

      Copyright 2010 by Darrel Bird

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      Heart of a Lawman

      On that Friday evening, seventeen-year-old John Shay fed the pair of mules and turned them out to pasture for the last time. It was the sixth of March, 1874. The trees were greening in the mountains of Kentucky, where the Shay farm lay a few miles east of Louisville. He gave each mule a pat and a little treat of sugar.

      John was five feet nine inches tall, and he had begun to put on weight. He was quick of movement and hardened from a life of farming.

      He turned, closed the wooden gate, and headed toward the house. His grandpa was nodding on the back porch, and John gave him a shake as he walked past.

      Wake up, Grandpa, and come inside.

      His grandpa snorted and came awake. He was getting feeble. John knew it would be the last evening he would be with the old man.

      His father was seated in the living room reading his Bible, and he looked up as John and his grandpa came into the room.

      His mother came in from one of the bedrooms and pulled off her apron, an apron she had worn as far back as John could remember. Her worn face and graying hair spoke of long hours of hard work on the Kentucky hill farm. His mother never said much when the men gathered in the living room to talk about the day’s events. But she listened intently, and she put up with no foolishness from them.

      John’s father carefully closed his Bible, laid it on the table beside him, and said, Did you get that field plowed, John?

      I got ‘er plowed, Pap.

      You goin’ to leave in the morning?

      Soon as it comes light,

      I reckon I won’t be seein’ you soon, Appie, his grandfather said, looking at him sadly. His grandpa had called him that since the time John, then only six years old, had eaten too many green apples and had had to run for the outhouse all night long and all day the next day.

      You never know, Pa. You might live to be a hunnert and fourteen, John’s father remarked.

      John knew that his grandfather was probably right, but he felt he had to go. He just had to see the western lands. His future was there.

      He looked over at his mother and saw a tear in her eye. He

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