"Why, it fell plumb to pieces."
"Did it disappear?"
"Shore it did. Wasn't a thing left."
"Did it look like a man's body, then?"
"No, it just looked like a pile o' ashes."
"Bore no trace or resemblance to a man, then?"
"None whatever."
"You wouldn't have taken it for a body, then?"
"Nope. Course not."
"Was any part of a body left?"