"Land sakes alive, Daniel, look at that boy " "Where is he, Marthy?" "Up there on the old apple tree a-hangin' down by his toes My gracious, does he wanter kill himself?" "Thet's wot he does, Marthy," grumbled old Daniel Hawkins. "He'll do it, jest so ez we kin pay his funeral expenses. Never seen sech a boy before in my born days " "Go after him with the horsewhip, Daniel. Oh goodness gracious, look at thet now "