Read the excerpt from "A Century Ride." "I’m choking with thirst," said Maude. "Get me a drink of water, and I’ll tell you," and the Doctor bounced in for a dipper, and out to the pump for the required beverage. To update this excerpt to a more modern style, what slang would most likely replace "choking with thirst"? dying of thirst getting up a thirst athirst somethin’ fierce cottonmouthed with thirst