Inch by inch, they crept backwards away from the tiny clearing.
Then suddenly Penny stopped, for Ezekiel was speaking again:
“We gotta do something about Danny and git him off our hands.”
Penny instantly became all ears, listening intently to Coon’s reply:
“Now ye’r talkin’, Pappy. Takin’ him in was a big mistake. Hit’s apt ter land us in jail if them city officers come snoopin’ around here agin.”
“There wouldn’t have been no risk, if Hod and Danny hadn’t taken the widder’s car and drive into town. Didn’t ye have no sense, Hod?”
“Danny wanted to go,” Hod whined. “How was we ter know another car was goin’ to smash into us? Thet fool newspaper camera man an’ the girl had to be there!”
“That wasn’t the wust,” Ezekiel went on as he fed the fire with chips. “Then ye follered ’em to the theater!”
“Danny said we had ter git the picture or they’d print it in the newspaper.”
“But did ye git the picture?”