Then I did something I never thought I could do, but maybe you've noticed you can do most anything when you have to.

I just stood up, then fell down again, coughing and choking, and my ears were buzzing all the time.

But I didn't care, I just stood up again with him hanging to me, and I grabbed the window sill and dragged him half way across it and with his head outside, and then I staggered and tried to grab something and my eyes were stinging and, oh, I don't know, all of a sudden my head knocked and I didn't know any more.
Mr.Ellsworth says that Doc ought to write the rest of this chapter, but he wouldn't, and it's just like him.

The next thing I knew I was sitting on the lowest step and Connie Bennet was holding my head.

"You're all right," he said, "but you got a good bump.