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Updated: May 13, 2025
Finally, the poverty of the hillside farmers and branch-water people was so extreme that they could not gather funds to emigrate with. There were no industries to which a man might turn and earn ready money, no markets in which he could sell a surplus from the farm.
I know of two cases where the pig was kept in a box directly under the table, so that scraps could be chucked to him without rising from dinner. Hastening from this extreme, we still shall find dire poverty the rule rather than the exception among the multitude of "branch-water people."
The telegraph operator had altogether disappeared from the country, and his two immediate confederates, who were "branch-water men" dwelling in some remote pocket of the hills, had withdrawn to their thicketed abodes. Bud Sellers had pieced two and two together, and though he kept a Masonic silence on the point, he had reached a conclusion.
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