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I aim to use my faculty not for worldly betterment alone, but to turn it loose likewise in the line of religion and preachifying. Yes, every night this enduring winter will see me a-s'arching the Scriptur'; and what I can't read I can ricollect; and come August, when the craps is laid by and the funeral occasions sets in, I will be ready for 'em.
"Yes," Temperance bawled. "She is a good solid gal; but I can't recollect her christened name." "It is Cassandra." "Why, 'taint Scriptur'." "Why don't you go and take off your things?" Temperance asked, abruptly. "I'll leave them here; the fire is agreeable." "There is a better fire in the keeping-room." "How are you, Mr. Handy?" father inquired, coming in.
It felt that it had been victimized, and that its tenderest sensibility had been violated, and when his disconsolate daughters put up the granite shaft to their father's memory, relating that he had been faithful and just, the indignant political leader of the village remarked that it was "profanation of Scriptur'."
"I thought I had done with all sich work when I heered Tom was took," said the old man pathetically; "but here it's broke out agin, an' me an' Mis' Yorke not so young as we was by a long shot, an' can't stan' it so well. The Scriptur says, 'Like father, like son; an' I've faith to b'lieve it, seein' I'm provin' it in my own fam'ly."
Seven women shall catch a hold on him. And ef they shall, then they will! For everything shall come to pass, and not one good word shall fall to the ground. You who try to explain away the Scriptur' would make it fig'rative. But don't come to ME with none o' your spiritooalizers! Not one good word shall fall. Therefore seven shall not fall.
"Hoot, Richard! it's Scriptur', ye ken," said Thomas, soothingly. "Scriptur' or no Scriptur', we're nae for't," growled Richard aloud, and rising, gave vent to his excited feelings by snuffing out and relighting every candle in its turn.
He looked back at the door two or three times, but said nothing till they were back in the finishing-room. Then "It's one of his days!" he said. "I've knowed him ever since his mustash growed, and there's days when he's struck with a dumb sperit, just like Scriptur'. Don't you fret, Mary! He'll see you righted, or I'll give you my head." Mary might have thought that Mr.
"Well, I don't know 'bout that," said Miss Roxy, flavoring her cup of tea; "hymn-book ain't Scriptur', and I'm pretty sure that ar ain't true always;" and she nodded her head as if she could say more if she chose.
Axy," says he; "there's a girl over here is named Axy. Now what is it? What does it mean? Is it Scriptur? I've read my Bible twenty-five years over and over, and I never came across it." "Did you read it twenty-five years for this object?" I asked. "Well, how is it spelt? Wife, how is it spelt?" She said, "It is in the Bible; I've seen it." "Well, how do you spell it?" "I don't know.
'Sam, says I, as he was fussin' round, 'the Scriptur' says, Sam's a deacon in the church, an' I thought mebbe a little Scriptur' would fetch him, and keep the price down, 'the Scriptur' says, Whatever a man can get, therewith let him be content; an' I take it the moral of that is, make the best of a bad bargain.
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