'Dam bu'st an' flooded her, an' the houses struck adrift an' bumped into each other an' sunk.

I've seen the pictures, an' they're dretful.

Penn he saw his folk drowned all 'n a heap 'fore he rightly knew what was comin'.

His mind give out from that on.

He mistrusted somethin' hed happened up to Johnstown, but for the poor life of him he couldn't remember what, an' he jest drifted araound smilin' an' wonderin'.