And they wasn't no way fur him to set down and rest.

And he was scared of getting a cramp in his legs, and sinking down with his head under water and being drownded.

He said afterward he'd of done the last with pleasure if they was any way of suing that crowd fur murder.

So along about ten o'clock he sings out: "I give in, gosh dern ye! I give in.

Let me out and I'll sign your pesky pledge!" Brother Cartwright was fur getting a ladder and letting him climb out right away.