By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
The scan-verified page closes the gun episode through hearsay: Bob mutters about wildlife, guns, and the BEACH fog, while the narrator arrives too late and preserves only two comic sentences.
The handwritten BEACH insertion makes the page feel more specifically coastal, while the crossed-out phrases leave the prose abrupt and slightly broken. Bob remains mostly an absence, assembled from reported speech and the blunt afterimage of the vanished gun.
Short epilogue to the gun-house scene - Bob talking to himself through the fog where there is wildlife there are guns. Narrator says he missed him by minutes, never met the man, is amused by the only two sentences the man apparently uttered: the gun is gone and the hell with those two nuts.