hit one of
those motherfuckers dead center, the body being mostly water, it?s like shooting a fuckin? watermelon.
We call them splashers.
Anyway, it was like shooting skeet. So I take the pot. We just put it up this morning, six hundred bucks.
Nine scalps. A good day?s work. The only problem is, this Nim and about twenty of his gooks got
away from us.
So this morning we track them into this little valley with a hump in the middle, looks like a tit in a
cake pan. Lots of trees, I call in some air and we do a little Macing. It?s hotter than a whore?s
mattress and we spread out around the perimeter and we give the fuckers a little while and that gas
starts mixing with their sweat, next thing you know one of these Kit Carsons, he stands up, starts
sniffing the air like a hyena, points down in the bush, here comes about fifteen of them, beating the
shit out of themselves because of the Mace, crying. The Kit Carson, he up and blows the first one
away, just like that if you please, and then he tells the rest of them to get their hands behind their
heads like good little gooks. Man, they took a beating, all covered with Mace burns, their eyes all
bugged out. Whipped dogs, man, they got as much fight left in them as a guppy. So we figure we?re
lookin? at, what, five, six of them that are left maybe. Fuckin? Nim ain?t in the group.
I got this American 180, a neat little submachine I won in a poker game with some civilian types in
Saigon, shoots .22?s but, like, thirty rounds a second. You could drill a hole in a brick wall with this
motherfucker. That?s what it sounds like, a dentist?s drill:
Brrrttt, brrttttt.
Like that. Jesus, what a nice piece of work. Two of these, the Alamo would have never fallen. So what
it is, you learn to do things quick over here, know what I mean? You move fast, shake „em up, they?ll
tell you anything you want to know. The thing is, you don?t spend a lot of time thinking, you just do it,
see. I call one of these little bastards over, he gets about four feet away, I give him a burst.
Brrttttt.
He hits the dirt, jerks once, it?s all over. I call out the second one, ask him where this fucker Nim is, he
starts thinking about
