11. Read this quote from O. Henry's "A Call Loan"
With a gun in each hand Merwin raised himself from behind a clump of chaparra
his feet and thrown, face downward upon the grass. There was a heavy knee pre
until the train had moved, with accelerating speed, out of sight. Then he was rele
How is this excerpt an example of the Western genre?
Merwin shows his cowardice by trying to take advantage of others.
Merwin attempts to escape from his debt by jumping on the train.
Longley independently enforces law and order on his misguided friend.

In those days the herdsman was an anointed one. They were tycoons of grass, kings of cattle, lords of Lea, barons of cattle and bones. If their tastes were so inclined, they might have ridden in golden chariots. The rancher was caught in a sharp rise in the dollar. It seemed to him that he had more than his fair share of the money.

But when I bought a jewel-encrusted watch big enough to hurt my ribs and a California saddle with silver claws and an angora leather hue, I called them all to the whiskey bar.

Lariat lords who named women did not do much to curtail excess wealth. In the chest of ribbed sex, handbag-lighting geniuses may fall asleep through years of opportunity, but they never die, my brethren. It was Long Bill Longley (a wife-led man) of Julio's Bar Circle branch, enjoying the joy of urban success O. Henry.

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