"What was it that Elmer told them to do, and what was it that they did ?" she mused, perplexed.

She called Elmer into the cabin.
"Elmer," she said, "exactly what was it that you told your friends to do to him?
And what was it that they did?
I can never remember the words." "Poke him," said Elmer, addressing Cleggett.

"I tells these ginks to poke him.

But these ginks tells th' little dame here they t'inks I has said to croak him.

So they goes an' croaks him.