He was lying on the floor with his head and shoulders into that hole as fur as he could, holding a lantern way down into it, so as Hank could see.

And jest as Hank made that mark he spoke some words over him, and then he says: "Now, Henry Walters, I have baptized you, and you are a member of the church." You'd a thought Hank would of broke out cussing agin at being took unexpected that-a-way, fur he hadn't really agreed to nothing but signing the pledge.

But nary a cuss.

He jest says: "Now, you get that ladder." They got it, and he clumb up into the kitchen, dripping and shivering.
"You went and baptized me in that water ?" he asts the preacher.

The preacher says he has.
"Then," says Hank, "you done a low-down trick on me.