"From what?" sez I.
"Fwom feah, you know; feah."
"Oh," sez I.
Agin he jabbed that cane of hisen into his mouth, and sez he, not offerin' to help me a mite, but standin' off and eyin' me like a one-eyed owl: "Are you shuah you have not sustained any sewious injuwy?"
"Yes," sez I, "I hain't hurt much, I could git up if I had a little mite of help."
"Youh fouh ahm now, can you waise it?"
I reached out my arm, feelin' considerable like a horse, or mebby it would be more proper if I should say I felt some like the old mair, she had sunthin' the matter with her fetlock. And he continued as he stood there with all the willowy grace of a telegraph pole, and as tall as one, so it seemed to me:
"Do you feel any pain like basilah menigitis, you know? Do you feel any uneasiness in youah pewicardium?"
Follerin' his train of idees almost onbeknown to myself, I sez faintly, "I never knew till this minute that I had one, but I guess it is pretty middlin' comfortable; I am obleeged to you."
"Oh, I feel welieved if you haven't injured youah pewicardium, for that would have been almost suah to bwing on basilah menigitis."
I give up that I wouldn't git no help from him, and I sez, "If you would just go to that house ahead and tell Hamen Smith's folks that I have come I would be glad."
I did it partly to git help and partly to git him out of my sight, he did look so dog queer standin' there gnawin' at that cane of hisen, with his stiff collar hold-
