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Billy followed, watched his companion screw the hose to the faucet, and turn the water on. There was a hissing, gurgling sound and a stream of water shot out, much to the rapture of the astonished Billy. "Won't Aunt Minerva care?" he asked, anxiously. "Is she a real 'ligious 'oman?" "She is the Christianest woman they is," announced the other child.
"Well, honey, I reckon you'se ole nuss'll alers be do same ter you wheder she'se 'ligious or no." Both the girls now stood beside her, with a hand on either shoulder, and Ella said heartily, "Now, Aun' Sheba, it is just as you said, you're 'jected; you've got the blues, and everything looks blue and out of shape to you. You can't see the truth any more than if you were cross-eyed.
"Can't you get 'em from under the old hen? Miss Minerva is such a Christian woman, she ain't " "You done fool me 'bout that 'ligious business befo'," interrupted Billy, "an' I got put to bed in the daytime." "Well, she won't never miss two or three eggs," coaxed Jimmy. "How many did she put under the old hen?" "She put fifteen," was the response, "an' I don't believe she'd want me to tech 'em."
If it were a case of back-sliding she had a homely way of talking sense to the delinquent that savored a little of worldly wisdom. There were not a few who shared in her doubt whether she was "'ligious" or not, but the Reverend Mr. Birdsall was not of these. He would only have been too glad to have discovered more religion like hers.
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