Flowers and fruit from the writings of Harriet Beecher Stowe

by Harriet Beecher Stowe

SAM LAWSON’S STORIES.

Effect of sinning.

“Ye know sinnin’ will always make a man leave prayin’.”

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Scepticism.

“You look at the folks that’s allers tellin’ you what they don’t believe,—they don’t believe this, an’ they don’t believe that,—an’ what sort o’ folks is they? Why, like yer Aunt Lois, sort o’ stringy an’ dry. There ain’t no ’sorption got out o’ not believin’ nothin’.”

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Life.

“That ’are’s jest the way folks go all their lives, boys. It’s all fuss, fuss, and stew, stew, till ye get somewhere; an’ then it’s fuss, fuss, an’ stew, stew, to get back again; jump here an’ scratch your eyes out, an’ jump there an’ scratch ’em in again,—that ’are’s life.”