He had an awful struggle, poor feller, 'cause he can't bear to have nothin' new to believe in com round and him not believe in it.

Religions is to Doc jist like teethin' is to babies; they got to teethe, and seem like Doc's got to catch new religions.

He ain't never real happy when he ain't got no queer fandango to poke his nose into.

But he didn't git Christian Scientisted.
"I says to him, 'Doc, ain't you an allopathy ?' And he says, 'Yes, certainly.' 'Well,' I says, 'if you go and be a Christian Science you can't be no allopathy, Doc.

Christian Science and allopathy don't mix,' I says, 'and you'd starve, that's what you'd do.