'' An' I ups an' says:
``Brother, an ole jedge come up here
once from the settlemints to hold couht.
`Jedge,' I says, `that's what no jedge
have ever did without soldiers since this
war's been a-goin' on.' An', brother, the
jedge's words was yours, p'int-blank.
`All right,' he says, `then I'll have to do
what no other jedge have ever did.'
An', brother,'' says I to the preacher,
``the jedge done it shore. He jes laid
under the couht-house fer two days whilst
the boys fit over him. An' when I sees
the jedge a-makin' tracks fer the settlemints,
I says, `Jedge,' I says, `you spoke
a parable shore.' ''
Well, sir, the long preacher looked
jes as though he was a-sayin' to hisself,
``Yes, I hear ye, but I don't heed ye,''
an' when he says, ``Jes the same, I'm
a-goin' to hold a meetin' on Kingdom-
Come,'' why, I jes takes my foot in my
hand an' ag'in I steps fer home.
That night, stranger, I seed another
feller from Hazlan, who was a-tellin' how
this here preacher had stopped the war
over thar, an' had got the Marcums an'
Braytons to shakin' hands; an' next day
ole Tom Perkins stops in an' says that
WHARAS there mought 'a' been preachin'
somewhar an' sometime, thar nuver had
been PREACHIN' afore on Kingdom-Come.
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