swamper

The swamper dashed the moisture from his eyes and summoned a look of stubborn resolve.

The principal tavern there stands on that corner of the court-house square to which the swamper would naturally come first.

But what Sam was, in the opinion of the swamper, Val never learned, for at that moment Ricky burst from between two bushes.

The swamper's face was bruised and there was a smear of dried blood across one cheek as if he had already been roughly handled.