They plan to take their cut and get the hell out of Dodge, but their sketchy good ol' boy neighbour Troy Bill Engvalll) is getting a bit nosy, although admittedly John and Rosie have been using their telescope to spy on him, too.
The capital theme of Castor's story is of a new type of family trying to make its way through money and the law amid bully-boy neighbours whose sole language is violence.
The Simmons boys, neighbours say, were often spotted among the gangs of youths who would gather outside Pilkington's home, particularly on weekend nights, throwing stones, flour and eggs and screaming cruel taunts.
One of the boy's neighbours, Victoria-Jayne Pirie, said: "When we came out we'd heard him screaming.
The brothers were both good boys, the neighbours recalled, unfailing attendees of the Baptist Sunday school.
It relates the wanderings and escapades of a disreputable trio of adventurers, the narrator Encolpius ("Embracer"), his friend Ascyltos ("Scot-free"), and the boy Giton ("Neighbour").
The man reportedly offered the boy, his neighbour's child who was alone while his family were in their field, a biscuit and the equivalent of 50 US cents to lure him away from his house.
The Jefferson County Sheriff, GW "Bud McCoigg, said the girl was playing with three other girls when the boy, her neighbour, called out of the window of his mobile home to ask if he could see her two new puppies.
He reveals in the latest issue of The Oldie magazine that since the paper went free he has taken it on himself to act as newspaper boy for his neighbours.
The four-year-old boy, described by neighbours as "pale and weak" looking, was wearing baby clothes at the time of his death and was suffering osteoporosis as a result of a "grossly inadequate" diet.
The story of the poverty and isolation they find is told from two points of view: that of Maribel's mother, Alma, and of Mayor, a lonely neighbour boy who falls in love with Maribel.
