I was somethin' like a chickin jest out o' the cistern.

I crawled off to bed the best I could, but I didn't lay on my back fer a good spell, I c'n tell ye." "You poor little critter," exclaimed Mrs.Cullom sympathetically.

"You poor little critter!" "'T was more'n wuth it, Mis' Cullom," said David emphatically.

"I'd had the most enjoy'ble day, I might say the only enjoy'ble day, 't I'd ever had in my hull life, an' I hain't never fergot it.

I got over the lickin' in course of time, but I've ben enjoyin' that cirkis fer forty year.