[Prairie Folks by Hamlin Garland]@TWC D-Link bookPrairie Folks PART II 27/51
What'll he do now? "He can't do anything but acknowledge his foolishness." "You no business t' come here an' 'sturb the Lord's meetin'," cried old Daddy Brown to Radbourn.
"You're a sinner and a scoffer." "I thought Bacon was the disturbing ele"---- "You're just as bad!" "He's all _right_," said William Councill.
"I've got sick, m'self, of bein' _scared_ into religion.
I never was so fooled in a man in my life. If I'd tell you what Pill said to me the other day, when we was in Robie's store, you'd fall in a fit.
An' to hear him talkin' here t'night, is enough to make a horse laugh." "You're all in league with the devil," said the old man wildly; and so the battle raged on. Milton and Radbourn escaped from it, and got out into the clear, cold, untainted night. "The heat of the furnace don't reach as far as the horses," Radbourn moralized, as he aided in unhitching the shivering team.
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