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The people had come in rapidly giants from the Crab Orchard, mountaineers from through the Gap, and from Cracker's Neck and Thunderstruck Knob; Valley people from Little Stone-Gap, from the furnace site and Bum Hollow and Wildcat, and people from Lee, from Turkey Cove, and from the Pocket the much-dreaded Pocket far down in the river hills.
There was none of the other children of us ever seen her unless me; but I used to be glad when I seen her coming up the bum, and would run out and catch her by the hand and the cloak, and call to my mother, 'Here's the Wee Woman! No man body ever seen her. My father used to be wanting to, and was angry with my mother and me, thinking we were telling lies and talking foolish like.
"Yes, and we're going to have you pinched when you get out!" laughed Tommy. "You'll get ninety days for that." "Where'd that bum detective go?" asked Jimmie. "When the roof fell, we heard him go clattering down the gangway running as though he had only about thirty seconds in which to get to New York." "He's a long distance from the mine by this time," Elmer suggested.
Bum simply lay where he was. I would do my companions what honour I can, but the stern code of the chronicler permits no quibbling with the fact that Mosey and Bum wound up the evening with a series of gestes and apothegms, such as must not tarnish these pages Willoughby occasionally taking part, rather, I think, through courtesy than sympathy, and ably closing the service with a fescennine anecdote, beginning, 'It is related that, on one occasion, the late Marquis of Waterford'
He gazed at them scowling as they went pacing by him, with their eyes fixed demurely on space; and all too well he knew that, beneath their lashes, they watched him and knew him well. Yes, and spoke to each other, when they were off up the street, of what a bum he had become. That was women he knew it the idle kind; they judged a man by his roll.
They'd taken 'em all, hadn't been for me and another fellow who stood over them with a gun." The Bum Actor raised his eyes. "What happened then?" he asked in a nervous voice. "Oh, we pitched in and righted things and got into port at last. But the Captain was no good; he'd a-left with the crew if we'd let him." "Is the shifting of a cargo a serious matter?" continued the Actor.
"I take my orders from Judge Ware, and if he tells me to trade here I'll be glad to do so it'll save me two days' freighting but I'm not the boss by any means." "No, nor you ain't much of a supe, neither," growled Swope morosely. "In fact, I consider you a dam' bum supe.
"Well, dollars or no dollars, I wouldn't change places with Eve for a lot. Guess there's some folk as would sell their souls for dollars," she said, eyeing Jane Restless severely. "But if dollars means having Will Henderson behind 'em, I'd rather get out an' do chores all my life." "Guess you're right," acquiesced Mrs. Rust, thoughtfully. "Will's a whiskey souse an' poker playin' bum.
"They're tryin' ter knock us, Stella, by showin' yer thet we aire a bum lot o' horsemen fer not makin' them behave first off." Stella laughed and nodded. She understood. "Where did you pick up such a mean bunch of horses?" she asked. "Them hosses is intended fer ther tourneymint what takes place after ther round-up.
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