The kid tempts Will with the $100 reward money and tries to elicit outrage with a description of Delilah's injuries ('cut up her face, cut her eyes out, cut her ears off, hell, they even cut her teats'). Writing, as we have seen, is no guarantee of the truth; but oral testimony is equally prone to exaggeration. Will himself embroiders the description still further when he tells his friend Ned that the Cowboys also cut her fingers off, 'everything but her cunny, I suppose'. Like so many characters of the film, the Kid is caught up in the myth making process, a victim of his own gullibility, vanity, and lust for sensation...

Hmmmm....sometimes when facts won't rise to a necessary level to foment action, they must be embellished until the desired results are achieved. And the embellishment turns to legend, in the end, to justify the over-reactions, once taken.

The greatness that is "Unforgiven" is the gift that keeps on giving.