Who is scratchy wilson

The drummer's tale was interrupted by a young man who suddenly appeared in the open door. He cried: "Scratchy Wilson is drunk, and has turned loose with both hands.

S'pose he has? Come in and have a drink, anyhow. But when he's drunk—whoo! A man in a maroon-colored flannel shirt, which had been purchased for purposes of decoration, and made principally by some Jewish women on the East Side of New York, rounded a corner and walked into the middle of the main street of Yellow Sky. In either hand the man held a long, heavy, blue-black revolver.

Often he yelled, and these cries rang through a semblance of a deserted village, shrilly flying over the roofs in a volume that seemed to have no relation to the ordinary vocal strength of a man. It was as if the surrounding stillness formed the arch of a tomb over him. These cries of ferocious challenge rang against walls of silence. And his boots had-red tops with gilded imprints, of the kind beloved in winter by little sledding boys on the hillsides of New England.

There was a silence. Potter's mouth seemed to be merely a grave for his tongue. As for the bride, her face had gone as yellow as old cloth. She was a slave to hideous rites, gazing at the apparitional snake. He was stiffening and steadying, but yet somewhere at the back of his mind a vision of the Pullman-floated, the seagreen figured velvet, the shining brass, silver, and glass, the wood that gleamed as darkly brilliant as the surface of a pool of oil—all the glory of the marriage, the environment of the new estate.

He was like a creature allowed a glimpse of another world. He moved a pace backward, and his arm, with the revolver, dropped to his side. The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky. Plot Summary. Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4. All Themes Frontier vs.

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Teachers and parents! Struggling with distance learning? He is a marshal in a small town, Yellow Sky. Jack goes to San Antonio and marries there a woman whom he brings now to his home town.

The bride stays unnamed within the entire story. She is neither very beautiful nor young, but she is happy to have a husband. The local marshal is the only one who is able to calm him down. Wilson is the local bully. Every time when drunk, he begins shooting in the town. He used to be in the gang that hung out along the river near Yellow Sky.