[Bad Hugh by Mary Jane Holmes]@TWC D-Link bookBad Hugh CHAPTER XI 5/8
Then she tell me about God, and Sam listen, oh, listen so much, for that's what he want to hear so long.
Miss Nancy, in Kuntuck, be one of them that reads her pra'rs o' Sundays, and ole mas'r one that hollers 'em.
Sam liked that way best, seemed like gettin' along and make de Lord hear, but it don't show Sam the way, and when the ministers come in, he listen, but they that reads and them that hollers only talk about High and Low--Jack and the Game, or something, Sam disremembers so bad; got mizzable memory.
He only knows he not find the way, 'till Miss Ellis tells him of Jesus, once a man and always God. It's very queer, but Sam believe it, and then she sing, 'Come unto me.' You ever hear it ?" Adah nodded, and Sam went on. "But you never hear Miss Ellis sing it.
Oh, so fine, the very rafters hold their breff, and Sam find the way at last." "Where is Miss Ellis now ?" Adah asked, and Sam replied: "Gone to Masser--what you say once.
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