A cousin of mine, Selina's brother, was drowned one Decoration Day.

They never found his body.

Can you swim, Doctor McTeague ?" "I used to at the mine." "At the mine?
Oh, yes, I remember, Marcus told me you were a miner once." "I was a car-boy; all the car-boys used to swim in the reservoir by the ditch every Thursday evening.

One of them was bit by a rattlesnake once while he was dressing.

He was a Frenchman, named Andrew.