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Yeh, you needn’t go packin’ it on Rufe jist to save your own skin!

Now, Jude! Wait a minute! Mebby you’ll change your tune when Rufe gits through explainin’ jist how I come to git drownded.

Drownded!

Yeh. This wet ain’t all rain. I been in swimmin’ sence I seen you last.

La! What in the world, Sid?

It all happened when that new dam give way.

Did that new dam bust?

It didn’t edzackly bust. [He looks straight at .] It wus blowed up with dynamite!

[They all turn and look at .]