"And such wonderful antiques, too.

You must have been besieged by people who wanted to buy them." Jed nodded.

"Ye-es," he admitted, "I cal'late there's been no less'n a million antiquers here in the last four or five year.

I don't mean here in the house--I never let 'em in the house--but 'round the premises.

Got so they kind of swarmed first of every summer, like June bugs.