Yes, I felt ugly for poor 'grave-digger,' though I didn't feel one single bit so for that cantin' cheatin', old Elder.

So when I turns to go, sais I, 'Elder,' sais I, and I jist repeated his own words--'I guess it's your turn to laugh now, for you have got the best of the bargain, and no mistake.

Goodish and the old mare are jist alike, all tongue, ain't they?
But these French is a simple people, so they be; they don't know nothin', that's a fact.

Their priests keep 'em in ignorance a puppus.
"The next time you tell your experience to the great Christian meetin' to Goose Creek, jist up and tell 'em, from beginnin' to eend, the story of the--'_Elder and the Grave-digger_.'".