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Updated: June 10, 2025
I remember the last time we took up our carpets at home, Abbie she's my second cousin, keepin' house for me said if gettin' down on my knees has that effect on me she'd never ask me to go to prayer-meetin' again. Ho! ho!" He chuckled. Mrs. Dunn elevated her nose and looked out of the window. Then she led another small trump. "You say that Miss Caroline and her brother expect you," she said.
And politics are dangerous to enter into. There is bad folks in Jonesville 'lection day, bad men, and bad women. And I am liable to be led astray. I don't want to be led astray, but I feel that I am liable to. I have to hear swearin'. Now, I don't swear myself. Twice I thought of 'em right in prayer-meetin' time, and it worrys me. I have to see drinkin' goin' on.
To clinch matters, he accompanied Nicholas from the cabin to the river trail, explaining: "You savvy? Big feast all same Indian. Heap good grub. No prayer-meetin' you savvy? no church this time. Big fire, big feed. All kinds apples, shuhg, bacon no cook him, you no like," he added, basely truckling to the Prince's peculiar taste.
"Some on 'em's raised eggs and chickens; and they brings 'em to the house and sells 'em; and they has the best dinner. Most times they gets leave to have a meetin'." "A prayer-meeting?" I said. "Laws, no, Miss Daisy! not 'cept it were Uncle Darry and his set. The others don't make no count of a prayer-meetin'. They likes to have a white-folks' meetin' and 'joy theirselves."
"If any one of our number has ever attended a prayer-meeting, let him hold up his right hand. I use the masculine pronoun, because the man always embraces the woman when he gets a chance." No hands were held up. "Heathen, every mother's son of us," cried the first speaker. "The daughters are angels, of course, and don't need to go to prayer-meetin', as he of the cowhide sandals just termed it.
And he was always regular at prayer-meetin'. Sometimes that sort of a swab, knowin' how mean he actually is, tries to square his meanness with the Almighty by bein' prominent in the church. There may be the kind of paper you say, but I shouldn't wonder if 'twas just scare and a bad conscience." "Well, I'm grateful to him, anyhow. And, as for John's kindness, I I don't know what to say.
Every time one of 'em would land it would cheer him up an' put the other one on his mettle; an' they certainly did get more comfort an' brotherly love out of it than most folks does out of a prayer-meetin'; but after Dick went away the' wasn't no more quarrels.
I began to question whether it wan't me causin' all dis sufferin', an' I stop goin' to prayer-meetin' four months, an' de ministers an' Christian men an' Christian women come to see me an' say, 'Brodder Philip, why don't you come to meetin', as you use' to? I tole 'em, 'caze I didn't feel like it.
Again he looked around him, stealthily. "It's h'anted!" said he, desperately. "Missis, listen: I 'uz comin' home from prayer-meetin', 'bout two weeks ago, walkin' back er dis same place in de dark ob de moon. An' all ob a suddin I hyuh de pianner in de pahlor, ting-a-ling-a-ling! ting-a-ling-a-ling!
Had eight children right along in a string 'thout stoppin', done all her own work, never kep' no gal nor nothin'; allers up and dressed; allers to meetin' Sunday, and to the prayer-meetin' weekly, and never stops workin': when 'tan't one thing it's another cookin', washin', ironin', making butter and cheese, and 'tween spells cuttin' and sewin', and if she ain't doin' that, why, she's braidin' straw to sell to the store or knitting she's the perpetual motion ready found, Mis' Pitkin is."
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