The Lord said to me, 'Arise, go in that there schooner!' I sought out the skipper, and said, 'Where be bound for next ?' 'Back to Newport,' says he.

'That'll suit me,' I says, an' persuaded en to take me.

But the Lord knew where she were bound better'n the skipper; and here I be!" It seemed to his hearers that this man took little thought of his drowned shipmates.

Mr.Raymond looked up as he strapped his books together.
"You were not the only man in that schooner," he said, rather severely.
"Glory be! Who be I, to question the Lord's ways?
One day I picked up a map, an' seed a place on it called 'Little Sins.' 'Little Sins wants great Deliverance,' says I, an' I started clane off an' walked to the place, though I'd never so much as heard of it till then.
'Twas harvest-time there, an' I danced into the field, shouting 'Glory, glory.

The harvest is plenty, but the labourers be few!' The farmer was moved to give me a job 'pon the spot.