Brother Hall was scandalized at the lightness of Jonas's conversation.

But the old presiding elder, with keen common-sense and an equally keen sense of the ludicrous, could not look grave with all his effort to keep from laughing.
[Illustration: BROTHER GOSHORN.] "Are you an unbeliever ?" he asked.
"I don't know what you call onbeliever.

I believe in God and Christ, and keep Sunday and the Fourth of July; but I don't believe in all of Brother Goshorn's nonsense about wearing veils and artificials." "Well," said Brother Hall, "would you endeavor to induce your wife to dress in a manner unbecoming a Methodist ?" [Illustration: "SAY THEM WORDS OVER AGAIN."] "I wouldn't fer the world.

If I git the article I want, I don't keer what it's tied up in, calico or bombazine." "Couldn't you join the Methodist Church yourself, and keep your wife company ?" It was Brother Goshorn who spoke.
"Couldn't I?
I suppose I could ef I didn't think no more of religion than some other folks.

I could jine the Methodist Church, and have everybody say I jined to git my wife.