sheemie looked at him a moment longer , and yes , susannah w now see the boy who had busded about a long-ago tavern called the travellers ' rest , picking up empty beer schooners and dropping them into die wash-barrel which stood beneath die two-headed elk 's head that was known as the romp , avoiding the occasional shove from coral thorin or the even more ill-natured kicks that were apt to come from an aging whore called pettie the trotter .