So far as I could see, r'inca'nation was jist plain error and follerin' after false gods, and I told Doc so.

Anyhow, I knowed there wan't nothin' like it in the Methodist Church, an' I jist up and let Doc know I wouldn't marry anybody that believed such stuff.
Doc reckoned to change my mind, but my argument was jist plain 'I won't!' and that settled it.

I believe a man and wife ought to belong to the same church,--'thy God shall be my God'-- and I wasn't goin' to give up what I'd been taught for any crazy notions Doc had got into his head.
I told him so, plain.
"Then Doc took a poetry-writing spell, but he wasn't no great hand at it.

I told him in plain words he would be better off rollin' allopathy pills.

I used to git right put out with Doc sometimes, foolin' away good time that way, sittin' round by the hour spoilin' good paper.