I hearn some flopping and splashing and spluttering, like Hank's corpse is trying to jump up and is falling back into the water, and I hearn Hank's voice, and got scareder yet.

And when Elmira come along down the road, she seen me by the gate a-crying, and she asts me why.
"Hank is a corpse," says I, blubbering.
"A corpse!" says Elmira, dropping her coffee which she was carrying home from the gineral store and post-office.

"Danny, what do you mean ?" I seen I was to blame somehow, and I wisht then I hadn't said nothing about Hank being a corpse.

And I made up my mind I wouldn't say nothing more.

So when she grabs holt of me and asts me agin what did I mean I blubbered harder, jest the way a kid will, and says nothing else.