" Good news, men. My old enemy Captain Pate has a posse raiding homes on the Santa Fe Road and planning to attack Lawrence. He got Jason and John with him. They are likely to drop 'em at Fort Leavenworth for imprisonment. We going after them."

"How big is his army?" Owen asked.

"A hundred fifty to two hundred, I'm told," Old Man Brown said.

I looked around. I counted twenty-three among us, includ ing me.

"We only got ammo for a day's fight," Owen said. "Doesn't matter." "What we gonna use when we run out? Harsh language? "

― James McBride , The Good Lord Bird