The Last Laugh

By Gadfly on Dec 31, 2017

Paladin is heading back to San Francisco via stagecoach and it stops over in a small town. The coach almost hits an old horse belonging to the slow-witted Judd Halhoun, who erupts into a fury at the incident. The nearby locals laugh at Judd and one of them, a troublemaker named Ed McKay, suggests that Judd put a burr beneath his horse’s saddle to get it to move. Judd doesn’t know what he means and Ed sends another local, Mickey, over to show Judd how it’s done. When the passengers get out…