5/15 I ought to know about it--I was foreman of the road gang! I know every tree that's marked for the Government. My old bunch of bundle stiffs and before-the-war wobblies is in there now. What chance has them Government cockroaches got against my bullies? We ain't forgot what we knew when they tried to draft us. We're free men now, same as in Russia and Germany." He laughed again and again at the vast humor of this situation as it lay before him, exulting in the mystification his thieves' jargon would create. |