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[In the cellar]

Lord! The water’s risin’ in here! That ain’t from the river?

No, I reckon it’s jist a wet-weather spring!

[ ''goes to the door and looks out. He is evidently pleased by what he sees., puzzled by his manner, goes to the door and turns back, startled and alarmed''.]

Look! The river! Did you see it?

Yeh, I seed it!

It’s most up to the porch steps!

Well, ’tain’t nothin’ to git excited about. We’re safe. An’ Andy’s all right, too. It ’ld have to come lots higher afore it could harm him.

[The outside cellar door is heard to slam. steps out on the porch and looks in the direction of the noise.]