Instead of seriously concentrating on his work, Jim watches as a bridge is being built in the distance, and takes long lunch breaks "loitering around that new bridge.When Bottleneck""s Sheriff Keogh (Joe King) hears Claggett""s tale ("Why that low-down skunk sucked me into betting my ranch and cattle and then switched cards on me"), he intervenes on Claggett""s behalf: "I""ve been waiting a long time to catch up with that tin-horn.Work for somebody else.That""s the gratitude I get.Hildy: Oh, I wish you""d stop hamming.Walter: What were you when you came here five years ago? A little college girl from a school of journalism." She removes the shawl covering the dead monkey""s body, and its lifeless, childlike hairy arm emerges and flops down.