"Aw, pshaw! Cramps nothin'! They hain't no sich of a thing. And,anyhow, if I did get 'em, wouldn't jist kick 'em right out. This way."

"Now, Robbie, you know you did have a terrible cramp in your legjust only the other night. Don't you remember?"

"Aw, that! That ain't nothin'. That ain't the cramps that drowndspeople. Didn't I tell you wouldn't fist kick it right out? That's whatthey all do when they git the cramps. But they don't nobody git 'emnow no more."

"I don't want you to go in the water and get drowned. You know youcan't swim."