Being over six and a half feet tall and with a shag of bright red hair on the top of his head, Jerry stood out like an infected thumb. Had God given him the good sense to use his size to protect himself from the likes of people like Cyrus Evans, Jerry would have had nothing to fear from his bellicose adversary, but he had been born with meekness in excess of his stature, which quite undermined his ability to use his size and strength to any good use, aside from grasping items shelved out of reach of blue-haired old ladies at the grocery store, or replacing light bulbs in the ceiling fixtures at his parents' home. Just one smack across the face from the backside of Jerry's broad hand would certainly have been enough to put his adversary at bay, but the lanky giant seemed to lack any storehouse of anger, resentment, annoyance, or even self-pity with which to put such an intention into effect.
One often finds that persons who are devoid of physical stature make up for the deficit with an overly rambunctious or fractious disposition. If Cyrus were the epitome of this rule, Jerry proved the opposite, for Jerry was as towering and docile as Cyrus was diminutive and hotheaded. Though a stranger to Clay City would certainly have predicted a certain victory for the towering Jerry Rentschler in an entanglement involving one as small and soft-bodied as Cyrus McGall, townsfolk of the rural Illinois whistle-stop knew better. Not only were the McGall family pugnacious, but they fought dirty to boot. Rentschers, on the other hand, well they just didn't concern themselves with much other than attending Sunday services and milking cows, both of which were attended to in the mornings and in the evenings.
So when it finally circumstanced that Cyrus McGall had fully set his mind upon the pacification of his rage by means of the increase of suffering in the physical body Jerry Rentschler, there was no doubt in Buck Hamilton's mind that the violence would be both severe and unresisted.
The originator of this perturbation was, as usually is, a female. In this case, a twenty-two-year-old newcomer who had taken a job as a special education teacher at the only elementary school in the county, which as located in the county seat
One often finds that persons who are devoid of physical stature make up for the deficit with an overly rambunctious or fractious disposition. If Cyrus were the epitome of this rule, Jerry proved the opposite, for Jerry was as towering and docile as Cyrus was diminutive and hotheaded. Though a stranger to Clay City would certainly have predicted a certain victory for the towering Jerry Rentschler in an entanglement involving one as small and soft-bodied as Cyrus McGall, townsfolk of the rural Illinois whistle-stop knew better. Not only were the McGall family pugnacious, but they fought dirty to boot. Rentschers, on the other hand, well they just didn't concern themselves with much other than attending Sunday services and milking cows, both of which were attended to in the mornings and in the evenings.
So when it finally circumstanced that Cyrus McGall had fully set his mind upon the pacification of his rage by means of the increase of suffering in the physical body Jerry Rentschler, there was no doubt in Buck Hamilton's mind that the violence would be both severe and unresisted.
The originator of this perturbation was, as usually is, a female. In this case, a twenty-two-year-old newcomer who had taken a job as a special education teacher at the only elementary school in the county, which as located in the county seat
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