"The Average Man's a Coward" -Colonel Sherburn
Mark Twain tries to tell the reader through the quote, "The average man's a coward", that the average man is a coward because most people do not like to deal with conflict. They cope with themselves in order to hide their cowardice from themselves. The scene starts off with Boggs, the local drunk, threatening Colonel Sherburn. Sherburn gives Boggs time to leave, but the demand is ignored. At one o'clock, Sherburn shot the drunk twice creating a frenzy and proceeded to go home. When one man demands Sherburn to be lynched, everyone follows because it is human nature for people to fall in line with a strong voiced opinion. They reached Sherburn's house and are met with speech which called everyone in the mob cowards except for Buck Harkness, who was half of a man.
