So I have heered it said. My wife’s youngest brother weighed 240 pounds. He was as strong as a mule. He could lift a sugar-barrel, and then some. Once I seen him drink damn near a whole keg of beer. Yet it finished him in less’n three weeks—and he had it mild.
Second Pallbearer
It seems that there’s a lot of it this fall.
Third Pallbearer
Yes; I hear of people taken with it every day. Some say it’s the water. My brother Sam’s oldest is down with it.
I had it myself once. I was out of my head for four weeks.
Fifth Pallbearer
That’s a good sign.
Sixth Pallbearer