Her butt plate was chipped and her checkering was worn smooth. Her wood was solid and nicely grained, although the finish was gone and she had several scrapes, scratches, and nicks. She locked up tight with her action release lever still right of center, and her triggers both let off sharply and crisply with no bump or grind. A once shapely thing, now down on her luck and her looks.īut she opened easily without squeak or rattle or sway, and a look down her bores showed she has no pitting or scoring inside, where it counted. She had gone all gray and silver, and she was bruised and scarred here and there and most everywhere. When we first met and I picked her up in Reno, I could see that she had had some hard use. She’s plain Judy O’Grady, not the colonel’s fine lady. Take you a workingman’s lass and polish her bright as brass ĭress her in such finery as she never hoped to see.īut in truth, oh how it hurts, you’ll find ’neath silken skirts,
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