“If it’s a fight…”

“If it is a fight we’re in, I say come out a-fightin’ with your best weapons! Me old father used to say, ‘Never let ‘em get set! Take ‘em off their feet and keep ‘em so!’ It’s you, mum, must do it! Be the great lady you are and he’ll never have the nerve to fire you! Before he gets his wits about him, he’ll be on the stage an’ gone!” – Matty Maginnis in The Cherokee Trail by Louis L’Amour