CHAPTER XXXVI
THE SIEGE
He sat down on a nice big comfortable rock and took out a pipe and filled it and started smoking. He looked as if he was going to stay there for a couple of years or so.
Will Dawson said, “Now you see what we get for standing on our rights. About ten years from now our skeletons will be found sitting on this sign.”
“Always on top,” Westy said.
“If we go down there we get arrested; if we stay up here we starve,” Hunt said.
“Sure, that’s logic,” I said. “I’m not so crazy about being part of an ad.”
“We’ve got a right here, it’s a technicality,” the kid said.
“Yes, but I’m not so stuck on technicalities,” I told him. “You can’t eat them.”