I tell ye them four books that gin his
story is chock full o' things that go right to the heart o'
fishermen,--nets, an' hooks, an' boats, an' the shores, an' the
sea, an' the mountings, Peter's fishin'-coat, lilies, an' sparrers,
an' grass o' the fields, an' all about the evenin' sky bein' red or
lowerin', an' fair or foul weather.
"It 's an out-doors, woodsy, country story, 'sides bein' the
heav'nliest one that was ever telled. I read the hull Bible, as a
duty ye know. I read the epis'les, but somehow they don't come
home to me. Paul was a great man, a dreffle smart scholar, but he
was raised in the city, I guess, an' when I go from the gospils
into Paul's writin's it 's like goin' from the woods an' hills an'
streams o' Francony into the streets of a big city like Concord or
Manch'ster."
The old man did not say much of his after life and the fruits of
this strange conversion, but his neighbors told us a great deal.
They spoke of his unselfishness, his charity, his kindly deeds;
told of his visiting the poor and unhappy, nursing the sick.
Pages:
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31