The clerk refused them any more as politely as he could.

Then they went behind the counter and helped themselves.

They got roaring drunk and went to work smashing everything in the store.

The fragments on the floor were an inch deep.
They left and went off on their horses whooping and yelling.

Coming across some herds of cattle, they took the bells from their necks, fastened them to the tails of the leaders, and chased them over the country yelling like mad.