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"'Oh, I don't dispoote none the efficacy of your friend's work that a-way, replies the young preacher-sharp, 'but it's irreg'lar; it's plumb out of line. Now what you-alls needs in the West is real churches, same as we-alls has in the East. "`I ain't none shore of that. I says, 'an' I'm gettin' a little warm onder the collar some with them frills he puts on; 'I ain't none shore.
Then he went on: "'This yere West you emanates from, says this young preacher-sharp to me that a-way, 'this yere West you hails from is roode, an' don't yield none to religious inflooences. "'Well, I says back to him, fillin' my pipe at the same time, 'I reckons you shorely can c'llect more with a gun than a contreebution box in the West, if that's what you-all is aimin' at.
It does some folks a heap of good to kill 'em a lot. "It's at this p'int the young preacher-sharp pulls his freight, an' I observes, by the way he stacks me up with his eyes that a-way, he allows mebby I'm locoed." The Old Cattleman said no more for a moment, but puffed at his cob pipe in thought and silence.
Enright brings over Benson Annie, who's blushin' some, but ain't holdin' back; an' she an' French fronts up for business. This yere preacher-sharp Enright's roped up is jest shufflin' for the deal, when, whatever do you reckon takes place? I'm a Mexican if this yere Sal don't come wanderin' in, a- cryin' an' a-mournin' powerful.
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