He says: "Elmira, when I get out'n here I'll give you what you won't fergit in a hurry.

I hearn you a-forgiving me and a-weeping over me, and I won't be forgive nor weeped over by no one! You go and get that ladder." But Elmira only answers: "You wasn't sober when you fell into there, Hennerey Walters.

And now you can jest stay in there till you get a better temper on you!" And all the women says: "That's right, Elmira; spunk up to him!" They was considerable splashing around in the water fur a couple of minutes.

And then, all of a sudden, a live fish come a-whirling out of that hole, which he had ketched it with his hands.

It was a big bullhead, and its whiskers around its mouth was stiffened into spikes, and it lands kerplump into Mis' Rogers's lap, a-wiggling, and it kind o' horns her on the hands, and she is that surprised she faints.