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"'I'm afraid we shall illustrate that passage o' Scriptur', Mr. Slick, said he, "And their judges shall be overthrown in stony places." It's jist a road for it, ain't it?
Did ye ever see an edder lyin' ower a stane as gin he was naething but a stick himsel', bidin' 's time? That's me, i' the Scriptur' sense. I'm only bidin' till I see hoo. A body maunna do ill that gude may come, though wow! it's a sair temptation whiles; neither maun a body neglec to do richt for fear that ill may follow." "Ay, true that. But ye needna burn the hoose to rid the rottans.
Laura sings soprano in the choir, and Sam stands next to her an' holds the book. "Seems as if I could hear the minister's voice, full of earnestness an' melody, comin' from way up in his little round pulpit. He is tellin' us why we should be thankful, an', as he quotes Scriptur' an' Dr. Watts, we boys wonder how anybody can remember so much of the Bible. Then I get nervous and worried.
"Old trapper, have you ever known remorse?" "I can't say I ever did," answered the trapper; "though I've felt a leetle oneasy arter dealin' with the thievin' vagabonds whose tracks I've found on the line of my traps. It has seemed to me, sometimes, in the evenin', in thinkin' the matter over, that perhaps a leetle less bullet and a leetle more scriptur' might have did jest as well.
I don't profess fur tu know much about scriptur, but a nice leetle gal pinted that air varse out to me, and she pinted out another which said, 'No drunkard ken enter the kingdom of heaven. Howsoever, I ain't no preacher, and like enough tham air black coats hev got up some big idee that clars up the hull subject. My religion is tu do the best we kin, and we needn't be shaky about the futur.
The Scriptur says, 'A fool an' his money is soon parted, an' meanin' no ungratefulness to you, boys I've faith to b'lieve it; for it's not good manners, neither good deeds, to make out that way, an' take folks in. An' them's my opinions, an' I'll stan' by 'em!"
It will seem like a chapter out of Revelations, which they can believe is true and not merely 'Scriptur, because I have been there. I wish I had been to the City of the Gates of Pearl, and could tell them about that." On the lawns at the garden parties she was much gazed at and commented upon.
"That's right," quavered Roxy. "Burkhalter's boy, he had to go to mixin' in when the Culps and the Venables was feudin'; and look what chanced. Nary one o' them families lost a man; but Burkhalter's boy got hisself killed up. Yes, that's what happened to him. Dead. I went to the funeral." "True as Scriptur'," confirmed Zack "reach an' take off, Pros. Johnnie, eat hearty true as you-all set here.
Do you remember about that woman in Scriptur' out of whom the Lord cast seven devils? Well, I should ha' thought there was seventy devils in that gal last night, from the way she carr'd on.
I've been up to Boston a good many times in my life, and I've been to Washington once, but in all MY experience at high-toned hotels I never set down to a better meal. It's a regular Beelzebub's feast, like the one in Scriptur' leavin' out the writin' on the wall of course."
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