Seems as though 'Rast waited around the schoolhouse last night to git a crack at that feller from town.

Miss Banks and her three friends set around the stove in the schoolhouse for about an hour after the crowd left, an' 'Rast got so cold he liked to died out there in the woodshed.
"Purty soon they all come out, an' 'Rast cut acrost the lot to git inside the house by the fire.

He was so derned cold that he didn't feel like crackin' anybody.

When they wasn't lookin' he sneaked inside.

Jest as he was gittin' ready to hug the stove he heard Miss Banks an' one of the men comin' back.