ray-ligion

Updated: May 14, 2025

"Be jabers, though," argued Tim on my giving him this opinion of mine, "I can't say, sorr, as how we Christians be any the betther." "Why!" I exclaimed indignantly. "How can you say so?" "Begorra, sure we all thry to have our ray-ligion as chape as we can," replied he coolly.

John C. (John Conroy) Hutcheson - Afloat at Last: A Sailor Boy's Log of his Life at Sea