Earl and the boys left in the middle of the night, Earl having a feelin that all was not right. They traveled down the creek bed a ways and then Earl turned and drove through the woods to a back road that led to an old deserted mine. Then a half a mile from the road, he stopped and cut his engine and turned off the headlights. Earl and the boys were on a slight bluff and could see into the creek below. A car was creepin up their creek bed! It must be the revenooer! Steve was on their trail!

  “Pa, we ain’t loaded up the still!” Timmy whispered, because sound carried purty good around these open rocks.

  “It’s ok, Timmy, that ship has sailed. Let’s be glad we got out with our moonshine and nobody is goin to prison!” Earl was countin his blessins!

  After the revenooers’ car was out of sight, Earl’s crew made their way back to the creek bed and down to Donna’s house, while the feds were occupied breakin up the still. They got all of the jars unloaded and stored in her root cellar and left Donna three rabbits all ready fur cookin. John managed to put plenty of her mason jars of food in front of the mason jars of moonshine to hide them.

  Earl left Donna’s and ambled on down the hill to their house, when a car come roaring up behind them. Bert yelled, “You pull over Earl Higgins!” and Steve yelled, “You’re under arrest!”

  Earl was more glad than he’d ever been in his life that they had gotten the moonshine into a safe place. He pulled over and the three policemen swaggered up to his car. “Ok, you can all get out. We need to check the contents of this here car!” Steve said all importantly to impress Bert.

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  Earl, Timmy and John got out and stood over to the side, while the revenooers checked out the contents of the car. “Twenty seven rabbits all skinned and ready to cook, five skinny ol squirrels and a deer, all cut up!” said Bert Wintergreen. “Why this ain’t nuthin but a huntin trip! Where’s the moonshine, Earl?”

  “ I ain’t got none,” Earl said.

  Steve started in again, “Earl Higgins, we done busted up your still. Where is the moonshine?” “Ow, ow ow, my head is killin me! Sorry Burt, I gotta sit down in the car. I’m feelin weak.”

  Burt explained to Earl that since he didn’t have any moonshine on him and since Earl and the boys weren’t by the still that he had no grounds to arrest him. “But’ don’t leave yet, we will wait till yore car has cooled down and check the radiator. I want to see if you are transportin moonshine in there! So we will just sit down here on the ground and have us a chat till then!”

  It was found after the engine cooled down that there was no moonshine in the radiator, but honey mixed in with the water, actin as a coolant! Bert said, “You are free to go, Earl. Our agent was a little loopy in the head, what with those injuries and the medicine he drunk so I don’t know if you was runnin that still by yore huntin cabin or not, but we will have our eyes on you!”

  “Speakin of yore agent, what are you thinkin about Steve, Bert? Do you want him to stay with us fer a spell?” Earl asked.

  Bert chuckled, “I seen up close how ornery Steve has been to you guys. So, I appreciate yore offer, but he needs to go to town to get his bites checked out and I believe he has someone to take care of him down in town. Tell yore wife I admire her but am not goin to try her Christian graces any further!”

  Earl watched the agents drive off and breathed a sigh of relief.