Chapter 6
BUD TAKES TO THE HILLSIn a little village which he had glimpsed from the top of a hill
Bud went into the cluttered little general store and bought a few
blocks of slim, evil smelling matches and a couple of pounds of
sliced bacon, a loaf of stale bread, and two small cans of baked
beans. He stuffed them all into the pocket of his overcoat, and
went out and hunted up a long-distance telephone sign. It had not
taken him more than an hour to walk to the town, for he had only to
follow a country road that branched off that way for a couple of
miles down a valley. There was a post office and the general store
and a couple of saloons and a blacksmith shop that was thinking of
turning into a garage but had gone no further than to hang out a
sign that gasoline was for sale th
