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98 explanation I was choked on a big square sweet cracker. There was but one solution and that was that he hit the bottom of the creek so hard that he busted the sack and that by some miracle

he was washed on the bank at a point where he could get out, and all this done before he strangled, as old Bob couldn’t have swam out of Silver Creek during the low water of summer, let alone the high water of winter. I