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I swear it on a stack o’ Bibles!

If you had it afore you j’ined the church, how’d it ever live to be twenty year old?

That’s what I’d like to know!

Well, I allus did have a weak stummick, you know that. An’ it’s been lots wuss the past few years. Any sort o’ licker’s apt to gag me!

That don’t count fer no twenty years!

I ain’t claimin’ I had it in my possession all that time. D’you mind that tale ’bout the revenue raid way back yonder, when Bob Fortenbury buried all his licker in the bed o’ Buck Spring Creek an’ never could find it ’cause it come a rain an’ washed his marks away?

Yeh?