They was a black plume on her bunnet which nodded the same as on a hearse, and she was into and out of seven front yards in five minutes.
Mis' Alexander, she runs acrost the street to where we was, and she kneels down and puts her arm around Elmira, which was still rocking back and forth in the path, and she says: "How do you know he's dead, Elmira?
I seen him not more'n an hour ago." "Danny seen it all," says Elmira.
Mis' Alexander turned to me, and wants to know what happened and how it happened and where it happened.

But I don't want to say nothing about that cistern.

So I busts out bellering fresher'n ever, and I says: "He was drunk, and he come home drunk, and he done it then, and that's how he cone it," I says.
"And you seen him ?" she says.

I nodded.
"Where is he ?" says she and Elmira, both to oncet.
But I was scared to say nothing about that there cistern, so I jest bawled some more.
"Was it in the blacksmith shop ?" says Mis' Alexander.

I nodded my head agin and let it go at that.
"Is he in there now ?" asts Mis' Alexander.