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[Sobbing]

Oh! It jist seems like I cain’t never stand it to set here—an’ the river a-coverin’ up everything out thar!

Don’t fret ’bout the river! The wust it ever does is to come high enough to flood the cellar a little. We’re allus safe here.

’Tain’t us I’m a-thinkin’ about!

It certainly is a quair time—everything a-comin’ at once!

Yeh, it’s Jedgment Day! [He sings mockingly, his eyes on ]

Andy, I want you to stop that sort o’ thing!

Oh! I ’us afeard I ’us a-trampin’ on your toes!