It wouldn't surprise me a mite to see a flock of swallers come sailin' right through these winders.

And here's a place big enough to lay down and rest a spell right handy to the kitchen, where a-body gits tiredest, without runnin' a half mile to find a bed, and in the mornin' you can look down to the 'still waters'; and in the afternoon, when the sun gits around here, you can pull that blind and 'lift your eyes to the hills,' like David of the Bible says.

My, didn't he say the purtiest things! I never read nothin' could touch him!" "Have you seen the Psalms arranged in verse as we would write it now ?" "You don't mean to tell me David's been put into real poetry ?" "Yes.

Some Bibles have all the poetical books in our forms of verse." "Well! Sometimes I git kind o' knocked out! As a rule I hold to old ways.

I think they're the healthiest and the most faver'ble to the soul.
But they's some changes come along, that's got sech hard common-sense to riccomend them, that I wonder the past generations didn't see sooner.
Now take this! An hour ago I'd told you I'd read my father's Bible to the end of my days.