Jist let me git a chance at him when he's soarin' loftiest into the amber blue above, and I'll cut his kite-string for him, and let him fall like fork-ed lightnin' into a mud-puddle." Cynthy said she did see one great sin that he had committed for sure.
That was the puttin' on of gold and costly apparel.

It was sot down in the Bible and in the Methodist Discipline that it was a sin to wear gold, and she should think the poor man hadn't no sort o' regard for his soul, weighing it down with them things.
But Jonas only remarked that he guessed his jewelry warn't no sin.

He didn't remember nothing agin wearin' pewter..