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An’ he didn’t ’pologize fer havin’ religion, nuther!

No, sir-ee, not by a jugful! The fust day big meetin’ started he picked out the wust sinner they wus in the congregation an’ p’inted his finger at his nose an’ told him right out in meetin’ that he ’us a-goin’ jist as straight to hell as if he ’us shot out of his own gun!

An’ d’you mean to say, Gran’pap, that you set thar an’ took it all ’thout a word?

Who told you it ’us me?

[Laughing]

Nobody, but I ’lowed it wus.

Well, you ’lowed right! But I didn’t set thar an’ take it. No, I ’us jist as much of a jackass as you an’ Andy. I riz up an’ walked out on the platform where he ’us a-standin’ an’ sez to him, sez I, “You’re a mighty big preacher! I can see that by lookin’ at you. But what I want to find out is whether your religion’s in