14/50 'Priest ?' says I.'There's a fine big church, with a cross on the ridgepole of it, not five minutes' walk from this house. Why don't you run down there this minute ?' I says. Suppose he should wake up. And I'll fetch a priest up here if I have to tote him on my back, like the feller does the codfish in the advertisin' picture.' "I didn't have to tote him. He lived in a mighty fine house, hitched onto the church, and there was half a dozen assistant parsons to help him do his preachin'. |