I thought somebody was killed an' I run out.

I tripped over the string an' it pulled the spigot open.

I barked my shins, an' when I looked in the store, after seein' nobody was hurt, the molasses was runnin' all over.

Oh, wait till I git hold of that pesky boy!" "I s'pose if you hadn't been so curious to see who was killed it wouldn't have happened," observed Adiran Meelik.
"Curious! Ain't I got a right to run an' see who's killed in front of my store ?" "I s'pose so.

But there wasn't anybody killed; only you came near being." "That's so.