#67

Synopsis

Thunder is spooked. The kids find Red unconscious under a freshly felled tree. He comes to, thinking he chopped wrong. Little Beaver deduces he was slugged and the tree felled by the villain. Aunty Duchess arrives scolding Red for tying Thunder under a hornets' nest. Red sees Thunder's coming home riderless was to draw her from the house so it could be searched for the cash Purvis paid her. (It was Purvis's fired ranch-hand, Rufe.) LB pins Rufe's thumb to the barn with an arrow. Two more arrows do his chaps. Po-ko brings hammer and nails. Rufe is pinned. The kids go inside for jam.

Credits

Script

Fred Harman, Gaylord Du Bois

Pencils

Fred Harman, Bill Ely, Harry Parkhurst

Inks

Bill Ely, Harry Parkhurst

Letters

Harry Parkhurst

Editor

Oskar Lebeck