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Grandoken, "with this difference wishin' is askin' somethin' out of somewhere of some one you don't know; prayin' is just talkin' to some one you're acquainted with! See?" "Yes, I think I do," responded the girl. "Your way is mostly praying, isn't it, Lafe?" "Prayin's more powerful than wishin', lass," said Lafe.
"I was three years ago, an' I lived a prayin' life a year; then the white folks did so bad, it 'peared like I couldn't live 'ligion, an' I giv' it all up. Missus sole my poor gal down de river, to sen' her two gals to de Norf to school now she's gwine to sell my Mary, kase they's runnin' short o' money; an' she missed sellin' my gal las' year.
"Faith it's small blame to the English. We're a mighty hard race to make head nor tail of. And that's a fact. Prayin' at Mass one minnit and maimin' cattle the next. Cryin' salt tears at the bedside of a sick child, and lavin' it to shoot a poor man in the ribs for darin' to ask for his rint." "They're not IRISHMEN," came from the sick bed.
Now at this I was silent and we walked for a while with never a word. "And your mother?" I questioned at last. "Your mother praying for you was that also untrue?" "My mother," said he, lifting his face to the radiant moon, "my mother died three years ago on her knees prayin' for me an' it's like enough she's on 'er knees afore th' Throne a-prayin' for me this werry minute."
"And do you say," demanded Absalom, indignantly, "that Teacher he says it's the same to him as prayin' this here musin'?" "So much as I know, that's what he sayed." "Well," declared Absalom, "that there ain't in the Bible! He'd better watch out! If he ain't a Bible Christian, pop and Jake Getz and the other directors'll soon put him off William Penn!"
"They say the Miss Cowies are great scholars." "Verra likly.�-But there's ae thing mair I wad put ye up till. Can ye tell the day o' the month that ye gaed hame wi' yer prayin' frien'?" "It was the nicht o' a special prayer-meetin' for the state o' Glamerton. I can fin' oot the date frae the kirk-buiks. What am I to do wi' 't whan I hae't, sir?"
He again returned to his home, and saw Sam kneeling and praying aloud near the barn, with the two horses standing beside him. "Sam, go to the square," he shouted. "Can't lebe dese hosses. Dey's bofe lookin' ter me, an' I'se prayin' fer dem an us all." "No matter about the horses. The house is too near."
Lot o' blokes come round preachin' and prayin'." "What? To our blank chaps? How is it I've never seen his blank flag afore?" "Ain't been werry long started. I heerd about 'em at Gorleston. Fat Dan got converted board o' one on 'em." Just then the smart smack shoved her foresail a-weather and hove-to; then a small boat put out, and a stout grizzled man hailed Jim. "What cheer, old lad, what cheer?
"D'ye ever have Ma Moll incant over him, Tessie?" Tessibel nodded her head. "Yep, I give 'er three dollars for ten incants an' they didn't do no good uther." She went a step nearer Brewer. "But I air prayin' hard, Jake, every day for 'im," she confided softly. Brewer nodded his head. "I guess that air better'n incants any time if ye can do it, kid," he smiled. "I guess so, too," agreed the girl.
Well, we went for 'em through all the swamps and briers and everything, and Sheridan, thar in front, had got the battle-flag and was rushin' round with it swearin' and prayin' and shoutin', and the first thing we knowed he'd jumped his horse clean over their logworks and landed right on top of the Johnnie's." "Yes," said the President, "that was Sheridan, sure enough." "Mr.
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