98 



THE COUNT BY BOY 



explanation I was choked on a big square sweet 

 cracker. There was but one sokition 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 sum- 

 mer, let alone the high water of winter. I 



