Maude, you set up an' keep watch.

If she makes a crack, soak her one." "You bet I will.

She'll find she ain't attendin' no Sunday-school picnic." "No boozin'!" was Sam's order as he told out small portions of whiskey.
Then the gang ate ravenously of the bacon and beans and drank cup after cup of coffee.

Later the men threw themselves upon the piles of straw and soon all were snoring.

The big woman refilled the lantern and hung it on a peg in the wall of the cave; then she took up her post near the square door leading to the underground passage, her throne an upturned whiskey barrel, her back against the wall of the cave.