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Rh proportion to your size!” An’ ’ith that I hauled away ’ith the flat o’ my hand an’ smacked him like all possessed on the right cheek! [He pauses dramatically.]

Well, wus his religion fool-proof?

I’m a-comin’ to that. I seed him grit his teeth an’ trimble from top to toe jist like a steam engine in britches! But he ketched hisself in time an’ turned t’other cheek! [He pauses again.]

An’ what ’d you do then?

I done jist what you er any other young jackass ’ld ha’ done ’ith Satan aggin’ him on: I smit him ag’in!

Ha, ha, ha! I reckon he turned ag’in?

I jedge not, fer when I come to they wus two men a-rubbin’ me, an’ he us a-goin’ right on preachin’ an’ explainin’ Scripture as cool as if nothin’ had happened! He said the Saviour never told us what