Cat's foot! You don't s'pose Didama Rogers and Laviny Pepper and their kind'll wait any longer'n they can help afore they come to see what you look like, do you ?" "Well, they must have seen me when I preached here before.

I remember--" "Mercy on us! that was in meetin'.

Meetin's diff'rent.

All they could say to you then was how much they liked your sermon.

They say that to every minister that comes, no matter how they may pick him to pieces afterwards.