<TITLE>29. Par 108-110</TITLE>L-108  "Now," she said, "another thing I want to tell you." She said, "You remember that time that you bought me them stockings, I sent you down to get stockings?"
And I said, "Yes."
She said, "Them was the wrong stockings."
How it was, we were going to Fort Wayne. I was going to preach that night up there. And I was going up to Fort Wayne, and she sent me down to get some stockings. There's two different kinds. One's called chiff--chiffon? That's them. What's the other one? Ray--rayon? Rayon and chiffon. And she told me; she said, "Go get me a pair..." Is the rayon the best? All right. She said, "They cost sixty-nine cents." She said, "Go get me a pair of--of rayon stockings while I'm--while I'm getting ready."
And I went down to get it. And I was going down the street. I never did buy any clothes for women, didn't know any clothes. I was going down... She said, "Chiffon."
"Chiffon, chiffon, chiffon, chiffon, chiffon..."
Somebody said, "Hello, Brother Branham."
I said, "Hello... Chiffon, chiffon, chiffon, chiffon, chiffon, chiffon, chiffon..."
Go on down, say, "How you getting along, Billy?"
I said, "Fine... Chiffon, chiffon, chiffon, chiffon..."
And I passed around a corner, and a--a fisherman friend of mine met me at the corner. He said, "Oh, Billy, Perch out on the piers are biting."
I said, "Sure enough. Crawfish is what they're hitting?" I said, "Well, I got to go to Fort Wayne." I said, "I'll meet you Monday," and we're talking like that. Then when he left, I forgot what it was.

L-109  Well, she sent me to Penney's to get it. So I used to go with a little girl by name of Thelma Ford, and she was working at Newberry's and I know that the--that they set them stockings in there, so I went in and thought I'd ask her. Well, I didn't want to show my ignorance to the people. And I went over there, and I said... She said, "Hello, Billy."
And I said, "Hi, Thelma."
Said, "What do you want?"
I said, "A pair of socks for Hope."
Said, "A pair of what?"
And I said, "Socks."
Said, "Hope don't wear socks."
And I said, "Yes, ma'am. She wants socks, and she wants that full style, that thing in the back, you know, and ever what it is, you know." I said...
She--she said, "She wants stockings."
I said, "Well, ever what you want to call them..." Then I thought I'd already showed how dumb I was, and I didn't want to get into it worse.

L-110  She said, "What kind does she want?"
I said, "What kind you got?"
And she says... What's that pronounced? As rayon? Chiffon? Is that the kind? Well, she starts and said, "Well, we've got some rayon." Well, I never heard...
I said, "That's what she wants." See? Sound like chiffon to me, chiffon, rayon. See? And I said, "That's what she wants."
And she said, "She don't want rayon."
I said, "That's what she wants." And so she went and got them. It was only about twenty something cents.
Why, I said, "Give me two pair of them."
She said, "Are you sure of that?"
Said, I said, "That's what she wants."
So I took them up there. You know how you went--brothers like to show off to your women, you know. And I said, "Oh..." I said, "I'm Abraham's son, little Yiddish." I said, "You know how to shop. Huh?" She said, "Did you get me chiffon stockings?"
And I thought, "Yes." That was what the good kind was. And I said, "Yes, ma'am. That's what I got." And she was lady enough not to tell me about it. And when she got to Fort Wayne, I thought it was strange, she had to have another pair of socks.


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