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cistern. Most people has their cisterns outside their house, and they is a tin pipe takes all the rain water off the roof and scoots it into them. Ourn worked the same, but our cistern was right in under our kitchen floor, and they was a trap door with leather hinges opened into it right by the kitchen stove. But that wasn't why I was so proud of it. It was because that cistern was jest plumb full of fish -- bullheads and red horse and sunfish and other kinds. Hank's father had built that cistern. And one time he brung home some live fish in a bucket and dumped em in there. And they growed. And they multiplied in there and refurnished the earth. So that cistern had got to be a fambly custom, which was kep' up in that fambly for a habit. It was a great comfort to Hank, fur all them Walterses was great fish eaters, though it never went to brains. We fed em now and then, and throwed back in the little ones till they was growed, and kep' the dead ones picked out soon's we smelled anything wrong, and it never hurt the water none; and when I was a kid I wouldn't of took anything fur living in a house like that. Oncet, when I was a kid about six years old, Hank come home from the bar-room. He got to chasing Elmira's cat cause he says it was making faces at him. The cistern door was open, and Hank fell in. Elmira was over to town, and I was scared. She had always told me not to fool around there none when I was a little kid, fur if I fell in there I'd be a corpse quicker'n scatt. So when Hank fell in, and I hearn him splash, being only a little feller, and awful scared because Elmira had always made it so strong, I hadn't no sort of unbelief but what Hank was a corpse already. So I slams the trap door shut over that there cistern without looking in, fur I hearn Hank flopping around down in there. I hadn't never hearn a corpse flop before, and didn't know but what it might be somehow injurious to me, and I wasn't going to take no chances.
So I went out and played in the front yard, and waited fur Elmira. But I couldn't seem to get my mind settled on playing I was a horse, nor nothing. I kep' thinking mebby Hank's corpse is going to come flopping out of that cistern and whale me some unusual way. I hadn't never been licked by a corpse, and didn't rightly know jest what one is, anyhow, being young and comparitive innocent. So I sneaks back in and sets all the flatirons in the house on top of the cistern lid. I hearn some flopping and splashing and spluttering, like Hank's corpse is trying to jump up and is falling back into the water, and I hearn Hank's voice, and got scareder yet. And when Elmira come along down the road, she seen me by the gate a-crying, and she asts me why. "Hank is a corpse," says I, blubbering. "A corpse!" says Elmira, dropping her coffee which she was carrying home from the gineral store and post-office. "Danny, what do you mean?" I seen I was to blame somehow, and I wisht then I hadn't said nothing about Hank being a corpse. And I made up my mind I wouldn't say nothing more. So when she grabs holt of me and asts me agin what did I mean I blubbered harder, jest the way a kid will, and says nothing else. I wisht I hadn't set them flatirons on that door, fur it come to me all at oncet that even if Hank HAS turned into a corpse I ain't got any right to keep him in that cistern. Jest then Old Mis' Rogers, which is one of our neighbours, comes by, while Elmira is shaking me and yelling out what did I mean and how did it happen and had I saw it and where was Hank's corpse? And Mis' Rogers she says, "What's Danny been doing now, Elmira?" me being always up to something.
Page 1 and 2: DANNY'S OWN STORY BY DON MARQUIS TO
Page 3 and 4: "Daniel, Dunne and Company." Anybod
Page 5: fur all that style and fur York Sta
Page 9 and 10: "Where is he?" says she and Elmira,
Page 11 and 12: he kill himself?" they all asts to
Page 13 and 14: He allows she has told some of the
Page 15 and 16: and it was empty." Then they was a
Page 17 and 18: "Send fur Brother Cartwright! Send
Page 19 and 20: was stubborner than any mule he eve
Page 21 and 22: "I give in, gosh dern ye! I give in
Page 23 and 24: That had its handy sides to it, too
Page 25 and 26: always does go off when you is need
Page 27 and 28: the shop and he takes down a strap
Page 29 and 30: and he says: "Beneath a shady chest
Page 31 and 32: "But what have I got?" asts Hank. "
Page 33 and 34: to eat him up, and while they was e
Page 35 and 36: Do your eyes blur when you look at
Page 37 and 38: an 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' artist, Looe
Page 39 and 40: around the country with shows and e
Page 41 and 42: "Well," I says, "Hank sent me over
Page 43 and 44: "Well, all right, Jake," says I, "i
Page 45 and 46: time." "How you going to work it?"
Page 47 and 48: ain't natcheral he will pick corn s
Page 49 and 50: no show fur quite a while, we'd sta
Page 52 and 53: In her lap was a book she had been
Page 54 and 55: so bold as to of spoke first to a f
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mostly you married somebody, or was
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quiet kind of drunks on. Which Looe
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kind of aggervating at me and says
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a-way. And she would get her a whit
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to tell now." "It ain't that," she
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when I was a human, I wouldn't of c
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"Well," I says, "I will bring them
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"Well," he says, "they carried on t
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there, and was waiting fur to float
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asts the doctor. "I am going to be
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he will put in a creamatory, where
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what they said was a comic turn. Th
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But aside from them occasional mean
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"Where's the balloon?" asts the doc
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Balloon! Balloon!! Balloon!!! The m
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jest inside the tent with chains on
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feller yells out: "Go it--you're a
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I seen that pile moving and churnin
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alloon. The newspapers had had stuf
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full of crime. About a year afterwa
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here town with nothing over you but
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Hutt by compulsive medical advice,
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had more right than any one else to
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And the other was a man's voice and
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woman's. Which is the kind that get
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Frederick, he says, not excited a b
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"That is the reason my dear Jane is
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"It's for you to say whether you wa
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tragic than any tragedy ever was,"
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"Why," says the perfessor, "their f
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"where?" But I didn't stop to chew
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kick him, and when he talked he had
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come closet; raced by the place whe
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hosses jumps on, and they rides awa
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yourselves." "Why don't yo' shoot t
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only not follering. I found the hou
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ick chimbleys built on the outside
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intended to go on the next day, but
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way; and sometimes that is worth a
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how-come he been visitin' Marse Tom
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was in a sweat to ketch up with Doc
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the parachute loose it wouldn't wor
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or give anything he can get his Eth
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glass tube all by itself. He looks
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we was setting in his room, and he
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WHY it should, either." He slipped
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this thing is worse than the others
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We got into that little town--I mig
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was considerable of a fox yet. But
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We tells him we is from the North.
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nigger church right on the edge of
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had. He was mebby thinking how much
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too. Dey got some dese hyah coal-il
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"De wohd has gone fo'th among de fa
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people down here and that half-crac
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"Well, suh," he says, "I 'spicions
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to me. But fur some reason or other
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up shouts of men. "RUN!" yells Sam,
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and gets his pipe, and brings it ou
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fur his sake, the same as he is per
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ack of the wagon. He had been more'
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So they turned Sam loose. I never s
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and cool, and he goes on with his l
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to bring out the word very decided-
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in Indiany one day, and I had lost
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two as they spoke. It looked to me
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preaching to them. They was all so
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conscience." He meant it, Grimes di
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and rush amongst them guns and end
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jumps up impatient and says: "We've
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as cheap in Watson County as it is
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as a piece of paper, and his nostri
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part of their own selves, and the b
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But things which was my own consarn
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left him, and Colonel Tom thinks he
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with him for that reason. "We decid
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with me, Tom, I looked like thirty
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kind, you know, Tom, and said that
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FORGIVE ME.'" "But couldn't you tel
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"I don't think it's possible, Dave,
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and stay there. And then my conscie
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Lucy's house was. And, if anything,
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"And then HE came to town!--" "Who?
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Fate got away with my half too one
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edroom, and lay down on their stumm
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"He ended with an impassioned appea
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to his feet sudden. I nearly busted
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looked it. "Why did you never tell
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But finally the nurse begins fur to
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Lucy?" "Yes, yes!" she says, excite
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