"Ha! Ha! Ha! Just to think of my mother a-slingin'! Ha! Ha!"
"And his Sunday-school teacher, she also knew well how to use this sling. She had been practising with one just like it for a whole year. She told him ever so much how to put the stones in and just what kind of a stone to use every time."
"Were there different stones?"
"Oh my, yes! Ever so many; a hundred or thousand. I don't know how many."
"How can you tell 'em apart?"
"They are all marked."
"Who marked them all?"
"God. He takes a great deal of trouble for everybody, but always for children. When Jesus was on the earth he took little ones in his arms and blessed them, and said suffer them to come unto me.'"
"He is very wonderful. How did he mark the stones?"
"He put plain words upon them. Upon some the little word no; upon others yes, or faith, or prayer, or hope, or Bible, or love, or peace, or heaven, or forgive, or Jesus, and a great many more names that I can't think of now."