“Then he begun for to fill up the hole, and the mole it spoke up real solemn and said: 'Ime laid here in the shure and certain hope of a blessed resuraction.’
“But Adam he said: 'That hope will be blasted. You shant ever arise from the dead till Gabrial blows his horn and eccho ansers from the hill.’
“And, Johnny, thats why the mole, which tils the soil real industrious, never comes up for to view the land scape oer.”
One day Billy he come home a holdin up a mole by the tail, which some boy had give him, and the mole it was a live.
When my mother she see him she said: “O you cruel, cruel boy! Throw it in the fire this minute!”
One Sunday Mister Pitchel, thats the preacher, he was to our house, and mother she read out of a paper about Doctor Tanner, which didn’t eat any thing for 40 days, and she said, mother did: “Stuff and non sense, he would have died.”
Father he said: “I dont know about that. Bears stay in hollow trees all winter and live by suckin their feets.”
Mister Pitchel he thought a while, and bime by he looked up at the ceilin a while, real sollemn, and then he said: “There was a greater than Docktor Tanner, and He fasted forty days and forty nights in the wildness. Does any of you know what it was which sustained Him?”
Then Billy he spoke up real quick and said: “Sucked his feets!”