I wisht I hadn't set them flatirons on that door, fur it come to me all at oncet that even if Hank HAS turned into a corpse I ain't got any right to keep him in that cistern.
Jest then Old Mis' Rogers, which is one of our neighbours, comes by, while Elmira is shaking me and yelling out what did I mean and how did it happen and had I saw it and where was Hank's corpse?
And Mis' Rogers she says, "What's Danny been doing now, Elmira ?" me being always up to something.
Elmira she turned around and seen her, and she gives a whoop and then hollers out: "Hank is dead!" and throws her apern over her head and sets right down in the path and boo-hoos like a baby.

And I bellers louder.
Mis' Rogers, she never waited to ast nothing more.

She seen she had a piece of news, and she's bound to be the first to spread it, like they is always a lot of women wants to be in them country towns.

She run right acrost the road to where the Alexanderses lived.

Mis' Alexander, she seen her coming and unhooked the screen door, and Mis' Rogers she hollers out before she reached the porch: "Hank Walters is dead." And then she went footing it up the street.