Evarts says Guy an' Jacobs laid out thar all this time.

An' a herd of hogs broke in the pasture an' was eatin' the dead bodies ..." "My God!" burst out Ellen.

"Uncle John, y'u shore cain't mean my father wouldn't stop fightin' long enough to drive the hogs off an' bury those daid men ?" "Evarts says they stopped fightin', all right, but it was to watch the hogs," declared Sprague.

"An' then, what d' ye think?
The wimminfolks come out--the red-headed one, Guy's wife, an' Jacobs's wife--they drove the hogs away an' buried their husbands right there in the pasture.

Evarts says he seen the graves." "It is the women who can teach these bloody Texans a lesson," declared Ellen, forcibly.
"Wal, Daggs was drunk, an' he got up from behind where the gang was hidin', an' dared the Isbels to come out.