The people back in Jefferson who are "getting ready to wake up in comfort and security" (192) are on Quentin's mind as he keeps his hunter's stand in the bayou, twenty miles from town,
Boon Hogganbeck "busts past the doctor's wife when she opened the door" (196), demanding that the doctor go to the hunting camp to save the wounded Lion.
In "Lion," the doctor at Hoke's is awakened by Boon in the middle of the night, "dragging him out of bed like a sack of meal," demanding that the wounded Lion be "fixed" (196).
