But I don't know--I never _purtended_ to be good on these propositions of religious matters.

And there wasn't any chance of findin' the kid to prove if Kelly had it right or not.
"But the Prof.he was certainly a great boy for puttin' up three-sheets about his own two kids; anybody that would listen--friend or stranger--made no difference to _him_.

He starred 'em to anybody, you understan'-- what corkers they was, and all like that.

It seemed like Kelly's havin' two kids also kind 'a touched on his feelin's.

Honest, I ain't ever got so worked up over anything before in me whole life." When this person had gone the old man called the two boys to his room and prayed with them; keeping the younger to sit with him a long time afterward, as if feeling that his was the heavier heart..