Bean stared into Jackson’s blazing eyes. Then, as though reading something terrible in those eyes, he quietly surrendered his weapons. “There, judge,” he said, “it’s no use, I give in.” And he surrendered meekly. Several days later while sitting in prison Bean was asked why he gave up to Jackson after holding off an entire posse. “Why,” he said, “when he came up, I looked him in the eye, and I saw shoot, and there wasn’t shoot in nary other eye in the crowd; and so I says to myself, says I, hoss, it’s about time to sing small, and so I did.”4
