"Blootch" Peabody created a frightful scandal by getting boiling drunk toward the end of the week, so great was his dejection.

As it was his first real spree, he did not recover from the effect for three days.

He then took the pledge, and talked about the evils of strong drink with so much feeling at prayer meeting that the women of the town inaugurated a movement to stop the sale of liquor in the town.

As Peabody's drug store was the only place where whiskey could be obtained, "Blootch" soon saw the error of his ways and came down from his pedestal to mend them.
Bonner was a friend in need to Anderson Crow.

The two were in consultation half of the time, and the young man's opinions were not to be disregarded.