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You're as safe in the 'Sary Ann, Padre, as if you were in church saying your prayers." "I'm no Padre," disclaimed Brother Bart, hastily. "I'm only an humble lay-brother, my good man, that has come to take care of these boys." "Brother or Father, it's all the same to me," was the gruff answer. "I'm a hardshell Baptist myself, but I've only good feelings to your kind.
"This is the last of the hoofed animals and the last but one of the land animals of this great country, so you see we are almost to the end of school. This last one is perhaps the queerest of all. It is Hardshell the Armadillo, and belongs to the order of Edentata, which means toothless."
"What do you know about this, Tom?" demanded the young second mate. "That critter's gone to sleep down there, hasn't it?" "It'll be drowned!" exclaimed the old harpooner. "That's what'll happen to it." "Drowned!" cackled one of the crew. "What you givin' us, old hardshell? Drown a whale, eh? That's like the boy that pumped water on the frog to drown him." "You wait and see," growled old Tom.
The people known as "Hardshell" Baptists do not wish to be called by that name. They wish to be known as Old Baptists, or United Baptists, for they allege that they are the lineal descendants of the United Baptists, and that the Missionary Baptists have apostatized, and gone away after strange gods. The Old Baptists had long been declaiming against college-bred preachers and a hireling ministry.
Thus far the change was radical, but here a large minority paused and brought with them into the reformation their old Baptist Church usages. The Baptists in the Great West and South are known as "Missionary Baptists," and "Old Baptists," or "Hardshell Baptists."
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