When I was a kid I could always bet on that.

So they picks up the flatirons, and as they picks em up they come a splashing noise in the cistern.

I thinks to myself, Hank's corpse'll be out of there in a minute.

One woman, she says: "Goodness gracious sakes alive! What's that, Elmira ?" Elmira says that cistern is mighty full of fish, and they is some great big ones in there, and it must be some of them a-flopping around.

Which if they hadn't of been all worked up and talking all to oncet and all thinking of Hank's body hanging out there in the blacksmith shop they might of suspicioned something.