"I do believe in it with all my heart.

It is a blessed break in the hard creakin' roll of the wheel of Labor, a needed rest--needed in every way for tired and worn-out brain and muscle, soul and body; but I believe in telling the truth," sez he.
He always wuz a very truthful boy--born so, we spoze.

Almost too truthful at times, his ma used to think.

She used to have to whip him time and agin for bringin' out secret things before company, such as borrowed dishes, and runnin's of other females, and such.
So we wuz obliged to listen to his remarks with a certain amount of respect, for we knew that he meant every word that he said, and we knew that he had studied deep into ancient history, no matter how much mistook we felt that he wuz.
But Miss Yerden spoke up, and sez she-- "I don't care whether it is true or not.

I have always said, and always will say, that if any belief goes aginst the Bible, I had ruther believe in the Bible than in the truth any time." And more than half of us wimmen agreed with her.
You see, so many reverent, and holy, and divine thoughts and memories clustered round that book, that we didn't love to have 'em disturbed.