Jibby Jones by Ellis Parker Butler

So that was what the sheriff told them, and at first there was a good deal of complaining, but, when they saw that the sheriff and Bill Catlin meant it, they formed in line at the corner, and Skippy and Tad and Wampus and me collected the dollars. Every time we took a dollar we said, "Thank you. Look out for bumblebees under the old dead pine there," and they did look out. Most of them went a good distance around the old pine, and every one of them made a straight line for the old tumbledown farmhouse as soon as they were safe from the bees. Some that did not have money to pay the dollar borrowed some from others, but a few could not get in. But I've got to tell you what Jibby was doing.

As soon as Jibby had the seven dollars from the Arkansas men he said: