Describe the altercation Billy has with some bandits as he travels with Boyd's body.

He hasn't traveled far when he encounters a group of riders. There is a scuffle in which the men of the group cut Boyd's body from the packhorse and then kicks Boyd's body. Billy is immediately angry and in the ensuing fight, Billy's horse is stabbed in the chest. The horse Billy is riding, Nino, rears up and one of the men grabs at the reins and plunges a knife into the horse's chest. Billy flings the knife away and stands holding his hat against the wound but the blood flows freely. The leader of the group yells at the bandit who stabbed Nino, telling him to come on and berating him for killing "a good horse for no reason."