He and Anse certainly hadn't been trying to wipe away the bitter taste of Gainesville by jumping some blue coats in a cantina hundreds of miles and more than a year away from where they had been forced to admit, at last, that bulletless carbines and bare feet could not keep on shooting and marching.
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Guns without bullets and feet without shoes could not fire or walk.
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Their shoes and guns were in top condition and fully loaded.