The Reverend Green had been preaching daily to full crowds despite 14 days of rain. During one sermon, a giant man named The Judge interrupted and accused Reverend Green of various crimes including statutory rape of an 11-year old girl. The Judge provided detailed accounts of Green's alleged misdeeds in different states. Later at a hotel bar, The Kid and others questioned how The Judge knew so much about Green without having met him before. The Judge stated he had never been to those places or met Green before that day. Everyone realized The Judge made the accusations without evidence and found the situation humorous.
The Reverend Green had been preaching daily to full crowds despite 14 days of rain. During one sermon, a giant man named The Judge interrupted and accused Reverend Green of various crimes including statutory rape of an 11-year old girl. The Judge provided detailed accounts of Green's alleged misdeeds in different states. Later at a hotel bar, The Kid and others questioned how The Judge knew so much about Green without having met him before. The Judge stated he had never been to those places or met Green before that day. Everyone realized The Judge made the accusations without evidence and found the situation humorous.
The Reverend Green had been preaching daily to full crowds despite 14 days of rain. During one sermon, a giant man named The Judge interrupted and accused Reverend Green of various crimes including statutory rape of an 11-year old girl. The Judge provided detailed accounts of Green's alleged misdeeds in different states. Later at a hotel bar, The Kid and others questioned how The Judge knew so much about Green without having met him before. The Judge stated he had never been to those places or met Green before that day. Everyone realized The Judge made the accusations without evidence and found the situation humorous.
Rain had fallen for fourteen days The Kid took his place unarmed, at the back of the wall
The Reverend stood to address them Neighbours!
He couldn’t stay out of these hell hell hell holes A teamster quizzed the Kid about the Nacogdoches rain
Then an enormous man in an oilcloth slicker
Removed his hat after entering the tent As bald as stone no brows no beard no lashes Close to seven feet high with a smokin cigar Even in this nomadic house of God
Replacing his hat after chasing the raindrops
Pushed his way forward to the crateboard pulpit The giant turned to face the crowd, to address
Reverend Green had already stopped preaching
The giant with small hands he held them out His face was strangely childlike then he said
I feel I must inform you of this imposter
No papers of divinity he holds He's wanted by the law in Mississippi Arkansas, Kentucky and in Tennessee. The minister of the Lord who cannot read
A string of charges one a girl of eleven
Eleven years met with violation Actually clothed in the livery of his God The giant continued and he cited Arkansas Said the Reverend was run out of Fort Smith Stating that he also had congress with a goat
A lady fell in shock at the Reverend
The Reverend sobbed and cried, This is him. This is him the Devil, here he stands An ugly thug just wanted to hang him high. Calling from the gallery to the rear The Kid and the teamster back at the hotel gallery Saw the tent start to sway and buckle like a Wounded Medusa slowly settled, to the ground
Already the giant at the bar when they entered
Had set up the bar with two handful of coins He raised his glass but of course, not to them
The Kid laid his whisky money down on the bar
The barman's thumb pushed the money back to him He said These here drinks, is on the Judge The Kid sees the giant who was the Judge Men piled in to receive a drink
Pursuing the preacher now a posse was drawn
A question was put of the accused to the Judge How did you come to have the goods on that no-account?
Goods? Said the Judge then he was asked of Fort Smith.
Where did you know him to know all that stuff on him? I reckon you was in Fort Smith fore ye came out here
I was never in Fort Smith in my life. Doubt that he was.
They looked from one to the other. I never laid eyes on the man before today. Never even heard of him. He raised his glass and drank it all in.
There was a strange silence in the room while the
Men looked like mud effigies. Finally someone laughed. Then another.
Soon they were all laughing and laughing together.
Someone stepped up and bought the judge a drink He was holding his own and He raised his glass and drank.