P.- The well had been washed and the driller sat down on his heels very close to this discharge -- and there were big mudpits, reserve mud pits, all around -- and I figured 'there was the proper man to stay with. ' He was 'he knows what to do.' And I was dressed in good clothes, and was, at the time, I was vice-president of the subsidiary in Jennings, Louisiana. And I hadn't had a lot of field experience except Sour Lake. And no air wells, compressed air. But when the well did come in and tear loose with this head of air, behind the water, it roared just like an explosion or a tremendous blowout. And this driller had boots on. He just jumped about two feet and stopped in the edge of the mud. Well, I let off like a rabbit. And I fell, of course, and I crawled through that pit thinking that something was after me. I never was crawling arm deep, knee deep, till I got out of that pit. Then, of course, I was a sight with mud. And everybody was screaming and laughing and whistling. So I had to go up to the Evangiline office where I had the buggies and the horses to drive into Jennings. And as I walked through the field, every rig