He warn't fit company fer nobody." And old Jack Means 'lowed Bud must want to have _their_ barns burnt like some other folkses had been.

Fer his part, he had sense enough to know they was some people as it wouldn't do to set a body's self agin.

And as fer him, he didn't butt his brains out agin a buckeye-tree.

Not when he was sober.

And so they managed, during Bud's confinement to the house, to keep him well supplied with all the ordinary discomforts of life.
But one visit from Martha Hawkins, ten words of kindly inquiry from her, and the remark that his broken arm reminded her of something she had seen at the East and something somebody said the time she was to Bosting, were enough to repay the champion a thousand fold for all that he suffered.