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`` They must ` a ' been blame poor shots , '' sez I. `` Why , I could shoot 'em through those eye-holes as fast as they came up , an ' she do n't even wear any head part with hers . '' Then an idea struck me : `` But why do n't you make a suit like her outside one ? '' sez I. `` It comes below her knees an ' yet she can ride in it all right . '' Well , we got old Melisse to help us , an ' by four o'clock the thing was done . We had used up some dark-green flannel that Jabez had bought to have a dress made of , an ' which she had kicked on . She took it up to her room an ' I went out to find Jabez . I told him that she was always willin ' to give in when any honorable way was pointed out , an ' he was the tickledest man in the West .