You knowed I has made my brags I never jined no church nor never would jine.

You knowed I was proud of that.

You knowed that it was my glory to tell of it, and that I set a heap of store by it in every way.

And now you've went and took it away from me! You never fought it out fair and square, neither, man playing to outlast man, like you done with this here pledge, but you sneaked it in on me when I wasn't looking." They was a lot of men in that crowd that thought the preacher had went too far, and sympathized with Hank.

The way he done about that hurt Brother Cartwright in our town, and they was a split in the church, because some said it wasn't reg'lar and wasn't binding.