So the man himself, Cpt. Edward Barrington lived between what is now downtown oak harbor--pioneer way, and city beach. I'm thinking water treatment plant, just saying. anyways, here's the story of Barrington and Big Billy, a local indian.
Ready?
Big Billy is over six feet tall. He's kind of a bully. Big Bully Billy bumps into Big, Burly, b'Irish Barrington Butchering on the Beach (I shit you not). Barrington asks Billy to hand him his "gam-stick" to which Billy bellicosely replies that he is now the boss, and that barrington's brief stint as boss was about to break. Barrington picks up the gam stick, blows billy down, grabs him by the hair and launches him over the bank off the beach. A stunned onlooker asks Barrington if he killed Billy, Barrington says yes "That was the intention" as he began butchering again.
Four days later Billy apologized to Barrington.
--Paraphrase of Dorothy Neil's un-cited story
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