Pa copied a lot of his stuff that he uses to this day if he happens to get a preacher part.

He was the loveliest thing.

Not so young, but dark, with wonderful eyes and black hair, and his voice would go all through you.

I had an awful case on him.

I was twelve, and all week I used to think how I'd see him the next Sunday.
Say, when I'd get there and he'd be working--doing pulpit stuff--he'd have me in kind of a trance.
"Sometimes after the pulpit scene he'd come down right into the audience and shake hands with people.