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Rh turned water into wine! You’d know that if you’d read your Bible the way you’d orter, ’stid nosin’ aroun’ in it fer the texts that suit you.

I’ve read it from kiver to kiver! I know it back’ards.

That’s the only way you do know it! You’d have to have the right sort o’ religion to read it for’ards!

They’s only one right sort! That’s the sort Jesus had! An’, thanks to Him, I got that!

Shucks! Jesus wouldn’t know your religion if he met it in the road! He didn’t wait till the war broke out an’ skeered Him afore He got His! He wa’n’t that sort! I did have hopes that Sid might start preachin’ the real Jesus religion when he got back, but’s fur as I can make out he’s like these here piddlin’ ’Piscopalians that run that mission school over thar. He ain’t got no sort at all! An’ as fer the sort o’ religion most folks has got around here, it’s a stench in the nostrils o’ God!