But next minute I whirled in on a kind of an explanation how a valley was different from a common servant and HAD to go to church whether he wanted to or not, and set with the family, on account of its being the law.

But I didn't do it pretty good, and when I got done I see she warn't satisfied.

She says: "Honest injun, now, hain't you been telling me a lot of lies ?" "Honest injun," says I.
"None of it at all ?" "None of it at all.

Not a lie in it," says I.
"Lay your hand on this book and say it." I see it warn't nothing but a dictionary, so I laid my hand on it and said it.

So then she looked a little better satisfied, and says: "Well, then, I'll believe some of it; but I hope to gracious if I'll believe the rest." "What is it you won't believe, Joe ?" says Mary Jane, stepping in with Susan behind her.