Lived up in Geneseo, where Dave was born, but used to come round here preaching.

Queer old customer with a big head.

He wasn't a regular preacher; he just took it up, being a carpenter by trade--like our Lord Jesus, he used to say in his preaching.

He had some outlandish kind of religion that didn't take much.

He said the world was coming to an end on a certain day, and folks had better prepare for it, but it didn't end when he said it would; and he went back to carpentering week-days and preaching on the Lord's Day; and one time he fell off a roof and hit on his head, and after that he was outlandisher than ever, and they had to look after him.