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(They always saved the bullets if they could find them after using them. The metal was hard to get. The guns were awfully heavy, they didn’t shoot them much. These bullets were something new. They didn’t last, they stopped making them. For some reason I don’t understand the bullets might explode. The men didn’t want to keep the powder and the bullets together. Sometimes the powder was rusty and sometimes whitish. They were big bullets—one of the reasons the guns were so big.

(They always carried pistols. The pistols were black and long, much longer than pistols of today. There was a jigger at the top that they used with powder. They kept powder in it, I don’t know what for. [Jane laughed.] They made bullets and put the powder into them. The powder and bullets were kept separate until they were put into the gun, though one or two bullets were always kept ready.

“They … they made bullets and put powder into them. The powder and bullets were kept separate until they were put into the gun, though one or two bullets were always kept ready. They saved the bullets if they could find them, after firing. [...] These bullets were something new. [...] For some reason I don’t understand, the bullets might explode. The men didn’t want to keep the powder and bullets together. [...] They were big bullets — one of the reasons the guns were so large.

[...] As long as you believe that a bullet can kill a man, then it behooves you not to kill.

When you realize that a bullet cannot kill a man, then you will not need to kill. [...]

With bullets. [...]

[...] Or she might narrowly miss being murdered when a bullet from the killer’s gun hits the person next to her. [...]

(“One smallest sliver of a thought/ Can cut its way through bone” could, Jane believes, be interpreted as a bullet in figurative terms. [...]

[...] No epidemic or illness or natural disaster — or stray bullet from a murderer’s gun — will kill a person who does not want to die.