I hadn't never hearn a corpse flop before, and didn't know but what it might be somehow injurious to me, and I wasn't going to take no chances.
So I went out and played in the front yard, and waited fur Elmira.

But I couldn't seem to get my mind settled on playing I was a horse, nor nothing.

I kep' thinking mebby Hank's corpse is going to come flopping out of that cistern and whale me some unusual way.

I hadn't never been licked by a corpse, and didn't rightly know jest what one is, anyhow, being young and comparitive innocent.

So I sneaks back in and sets all the flatirons in the house on top of the cistern lid.