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of the world, a moonshine still could be found at 

 every twenty miles. ^ As for the rest, those who 

 did not make moonshine corn whisky or ''monkey 

 rum," drank it. 



Shooting a revenue oflQcer, however, and mur- 

 dering a resident against whom there was no de- 

 clared feud, were two different things. Shan had 

 refused to deliver Thompson up to the law, he was 

 too young to be urged to undertake a feud, so the 

 community decided to take care of the case for 

 itself. 



A few nights after Shan had refused to take the 

 judge's suggestion, half a dozen men broke into 

 Ned Thompson's house, took his clothes from him, 

 smeared him liberally with tar and emptied a pil- 

 low-full of feathers over him, plastering them on 

 until he was fully covered. Then they tore down 

 a fence-rail, set him astride of it, with his ankles 

 tied, and escorted him ten miles out of town. They 

 left him there with a large piece of corn-bread and 

 no clothes. Which was the last that section of the 

 country ever saw of its game warden. 



It was not to be expected that such a man would 



1 While this book was in press, two revenue men were killed and 

 one seriously wounded liv moonshiners in North Carolina. In one 

 county, moreover, two hundred moonshiners were arrested during 

 the first six months of 1918. 



