"Miss Withers is upstairs with Miss Bathsheby, a cryin' and a lamentin'.

Miss Badlam's in the parlor.

The men has been draggin' the pond.

They have n't found not one thing, but only jest two, and that was the old coffeepot and the gray cat,--it's them nigger boys hanged her with a string they tied round her neck and then drownded her." [P.

Fagan, Jr., Aet.