Martha woke up when she heard the hunting dogs barking. Since Jesse was not home yet, she went to Bo and Luke's room.
"Bo." Martha shook his foot to wake him. Bo opened his eyes and looked at Martha confused at first.
"Ma?" Bo sat up and looked at Martha.
"Bo, I think someone is snooping around." Bo got out of bed when he heard the hunting dogs and woke up Luke.
"Hey, Luke." Bo shook his shoulder. "We got trouble." Both put on their pants and Bo grabbed the shotgun that was next to his bed.
"Ma, go to the little one's room. Me and Luke will see who's outside." Without putting on their boots or shirts, Bo and Luke went out their bedroom window. They made their way around the house to the front and looked around the farm yard. They saw a shadow running towards the house. Bo fired a shot over the stranger's head. The man stopped in his tracks.
"Take one more step and it will be your last." Bo warned the man. "You best have a good reason for trespassin'."
"Hold on, Bo! I ain't trespassin'." The man said as he held his hands up.
"Like hell you're not!" Bo and Luke walked up to the man and both were surprised to see their neighbor Mr Johnson standing there.
"Mr Johnson?" Luke asked.
"Revenuers are comin'. Jake overheard Rosco and Enos talkin' about a raid tonight. Figured they was talkin' about you. Thought I'd warn ya." Luke looked at Bo, who now lowered his gun. Bo walked up to Mr Johnson and put out his hand.
"Sorry, Mr Johnson. Didn't recogize your voice. Thanks for the heads up." Mr Johnson shook Bo's hand.
"Next time I think I'll call."
"Maybe safer that way." Luke remarked. "You walk?"
"No, truck's down the road behind some trees. Didn't want to wake everyone." Before anything else could be said, they heard a car pull up the drive.
"Shit!"
"Bo, don't."
"Luke, I ain't gonna start anything." He laid the gun onto the picnic table and they all stood there with their hands raised. Knowing full well that there were revenuers in the car.
"Evening boys. Nice night for a little drive, ain't it?" Agent Lee said as he got out of the car.
"Was here all night."
"Sure you were, Bo." Agent Lee replied. "Where's Jesse?"
"Right here, boy." They turned around and saw Jesse coming out of the barn. He got back from the still site in time to hear what Mr Johnson said to Bo. He made it look like he was tending to one of the animals.
"What are you doing in the barn so late?"
"None of your concern. But I was tending to one of our mares if you must know."
"Bring them outside Jesse. We got a warrent to search the house for illegal whiskey." Agent Lee handed the piece of paper to Jesse. Jesse read the warrent and nodded.
"Come on boys, lets wake up the others." They followed Jesse in the house and went to the younger boys' room where Martha was. While Mr Johnson waited outside.
"Jesse, what's going on?"
"Everyone has to go outside, they got a warrent to search the house." Martha and Bo got the three younger boys up. While Jesse got Daisy and Luke got the two older boys.
"Come on, now!" Agent Lee reached to grab Martha to get her out of the house faster.
"Don't even think about it, boy." Jesse warned him.
"Lee, come on. She's expecting a baby, leave her be." Agent Smith turned to Martha and told her. "Sorry, ma'am."
"Thank you."
All of the Dukes walked outside with Joey and Adam crying. Since Martha was so far along in her pregnancy she couldn't pick up the young kids.
"Bo, Luke. Can you take the little ones?" Bo picked up Joey as Luke picked up Adam. They sat at the picnic table with the others as the agents searched the house.
"It's alright Adam." Luke held Adam as Martha rubbed his back in an effort to calm the upset child. Joey fell back asleep as Bo rocked him in his arms. They searched the house for about a half an hour and came up empty.
"Come on Lee, let's get going." Agent Lee walked to the car without saying a word.
"Night, Jesse." Agent Smith smiled at Bo and Luke. "See ya around, boys." He waved as he got into the car and left.
Daisy stood next to Bo as the revenuers drove away.
"Bo, what would have happened if they found 'shine in the house?"
"They would have burned it."
"What about the kids?"
"Kids or no kids. They don't care."
"Let's get back to bed, kids." The kids went back into the house while Jesse stayed outside to talk to Mr Johnson. When Bo laid Joey back in his bed, Joey woke up and started to cry.
"Momma."
"You want ma to sleep with you?" Joey nodded his head as he continued to cry. Bo looked at Martha and she nodded.
"Joey, let's go to my room. The bed is bigger." Joey nodded as Bo picked him up and walked to Martha and Jesse's bedroom.
"You have to sleep in the middle, honey." Joey moved to the middle and Martha laid down next to him. As she was getting comfortable, Adam walked into the room.
"Momma?" Martha looked over and saw Adam standing there with Luke behind him.
"It's alright, Luke. I think there's room. Come on, Adam." As the younger ones got back to sleep, Bo and Luke went outside to talk to Jesse. Jesse was saying goodbye to Mr Johnson when Bo walked up to him.
"I think they're watching the farm." Bo told Jesse as Mr Johnson left.
"What do you mean, Bo?" Jesse asked.
"Remember when we had the new customer that could only pay for half of his order?"
"Yeah."
"Remember where we stored the extra?"
"In the basement." Jesse answered.
"Yeah, where was the first place that they looked?"
"The basement."
"Tonight that same customer only paid for half again." Bo started to laugh as he walked to the bushes under the kitchen window. "They practically tripped over the bottles in the yard to get to the basement." He picked up two of the 4 bottles of 'shine and showed Jesse.
"Either the new customer is an agent..." "Or they're watching us." Jesse finished for Bo.
"Yeah."
"What do we do now? If they are watching us?" Luke asked Jesse.
"Not sure." Jesse looked around than said. "First, we'll hide that 'shine in the old cellar in the barn. Bo help me, Luke go onto bed."
"Yes, sir." Luke took the hint that Jesse wanted to talk to Bo.
