I say, his wife could of divorced him, only she couldn't.
But Jim was like the majority of men, and women, too,
I guess. He wanted what he couldn't get. He wanted
Julie Gregg and worked his head off tryin' to land her.
Only he'd of said bean instead of head.
Well, Jim's habits and his jokes didn't appeal to Julie
and of course he was a married man, so he didn't
have no more chance than, well, than a rabbit. That's
an expression of Jim's himself. When somebody didn't
have no chance to get elected or somethin', Jim would
always say they didn't have no more chance than a
rabbit.
He didn't make no bones about how he felt. Right in
here, more than once, in front of the whole crowd, he
said he was stuck on Julie and anybody that could get
her for him was welcome to his house and his wife and
kids included. But she wouldn't have nothin' to do with
him; wouldn't even speak to him on the street. He finally
seen he wasn't gettin' nowheres with his usual line so
he decided to try the rough stuff. He went right up to
her house one evenin' and when she opened the door
he forced his way in and grabbed her. But she broke
loose and before he could stop her, she run in the next
room and locked the door and phoned to Joe Barnes.
Joe's the marshal. Jim could hear who she was phonin'
to and he beat it before Joe got there.
HYLAND
