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"An' I just wish you'd leave me go fetch her. Won't you, lass? Come, now!" "'Tis no use, David," said my mother. "She couldn't do anything for me." "Ay, but," my father persisted, "you're forgettin' that she've worked cures afore this. I'm fair believin'," he added with conviction, "that they's virtue in some o' they charms. Not in many, maybe, but in some. An' she might work a cure on you.
"It is a pity you can't take out a patent on that notion, Mr. Spence, and sow it broadcast," returned the New Yorker soberly. Willie's gaze traveled with wistful and reverent faith across the other's face to the sky above him. "Somehow," he murmured, "I like to believe that idee was patented centuries ago by One who put it right to work by believin' the best of all us poor sinners.
Falconer, and said no more. He carried the instrument up to his room, laid it on his bed, locked his door, put the key in his pocket, and descended to the parlour. 'He's deid, is he? said his grandmother, as he re-entered. 'Ay is he, grannie, answered Robert. 'He deid a repentant man. 'An' a believin'? asked Mrs. Falconer.
At fust I war glad when he war suspicioned 'bout'n it, an' I war minded to go an' inform on him an' sech, ter pay him back; 'kase I held a grudge ag'in him, believin' ez he hed dressed out that thar blackberry bush ez Mrs. Price's harnt.
"It ain't a case of not believin' the Bible, it's only that we ain't fools enough to believe all the ways people twists it to suit theirselves; men as talks that way is always the sort would be in a benevolent asylum only for some woman keepin' 'em from it," said grandma, coming to the rescue.
If I shet my eyes an' hurl a stone that kills the King o' Siam, The chances are that God'll be as much surprised as I am. If ye pray with faith believin', why, ye'll certnly receive, But that God does what's impossible is more than I'll believe. If it grieves Him when a sparrow falls, it's sure as anything, He'd hev turned the arrow if He could, that broke the sparrow's wing.
If I didn't he might want to go, from the talk of those fools, and get to believin' with them. He said there was boys and girls kneelin' with the rest little children, almost, and shoutin' and prayin' to Joseph. Did you see 'em?" "Yes; it was dreadful, Nancy. But it was worse to see the women, the grown-up girls, and the mothers of the children. It looked like they had been drinking.
"What is it?" Still Lucy spoke with diffidence, as she always did when she touched upon her faith. "I was only thinkin' I dunno 's I can tell you, Hetty but what you said yesterday, you know, about not believin' there's any God I was goin' to ask you who you think made the trees an' flowers." Hetty did not answer. She stood there, her hands trembling underneath her shawl.
Believin' comes easy enough to me at such times, and if the Lord made man first out of'arth, as they tell me it is written in the Bible; then turns him into dust at death; I see no great difficulty in the way to bringin' him back in the body, though ashes be the only substance left. These things lie beyond our understandin', though they may and do lie so close to our feelin's.
All ye've got to do is to believe what ye hear, an' if ye do that enough, afther a while ye'll hear what ye believe. Ye've got to start in believin' befure ye can find a reason f'r ye'er belief. Our old frind Christopher Columbus hadn't anny good reason f'r believin' that there was anny such a place as America. But he believed it without a reason an' thin wint out an' found it.
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