![]() He remembers how Eva's husband Ralph had helped save the Mill from the great fire. 9:00 AM-Ed "Weasel" Craig, a drunk in Eva's boarding house, wakes up and thinks about how he used to sleep with Eva and only works odd jobs for her now.He makes a couple of them get off and walk. 8:00 AM-Bus driver Charlie Rhodes is tormenting the kids on his bus because he's a jerk.This is the beginning of much badness, in case you couldn't tell. His day is ruined, especially since he knows that Win will be devastated. ![]() Then he finds Doc, Win Purinton's dog, hung up on the grave fence. 6:45 AM-Mike Ryerson, the gravekeeper, is feeling good about life.6:05 AM-Seventeen-year-old mom Sandy McDougall gets up to feed her baby Randy.She talks briefly to Purinton, who's delivering the milk. 5:15 AM-Eva Miller is making breakfast.He has to go back to the truck to get sour cream for Susan Norton, who's preparing for dinner with Ben. 4:30 AM-Irwin ("Win") Purinton, the milkman, is delivering the milk.He resents his brother Jack, fourteen, who is better at the school thing. We start out at 4:00 AM with Hal Griffen, an eighteen-year-old farmer's kid who hates school and just wants to inherit the farm.It's not quite as cheerful as that sounds. This chapter goes through a day in Jerusalem's Lot, bouncing about from person to person.
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