<TITLE>07. Par 26-29</TITLE>L-26 And you know, I used to set right on the corner next to daddy. And we'd pass the bread, and I'd break the corner off so I get plenty of crust around, you know. That was good, down on the corner. Go around... And you know, we broke bread then. Now, you cut it with a knife. Well, then you'd--you'd--you broke bread. Used to say that Jesus broke bread and blessed it. He never cut it. So... And so that wasn't our reason of it; we'd just break it. Each fellow'd break him off a piece, and go right around the table.
And that great big old pot of beans there, with that big piece of jowl in it. Say, you know, that wouldn't be bad right now, would it? That--that would be fine, even right now. That's good eating. Yes, sir.

L-27 And then we would have a big day. And Sunday, we'd have a pudding. How many ever had the old sweet pudding, you know? You used to make it up in the pan. We had a little, some kind of a little dabs of stuff right out in the middle of the pan, you know. And that was a rarity. My, be glad to get a hold of that.
Brother and I used to argue who would sop the pan. Did you ever sop the pan? Oh, my. We're just a big bunch of kids growed up yet, aren't we. So we'd get out there and sop the pan. My, what a time we would have.
And I'll tell you; that puts me in the mind of an old fashion Holy Ghost meeting. But one good thing: we're not sopping the pan any more now, all this old... We ain't just getting a taste now. That's right. And God comes right down with us and gives us a foretaste of glory Divine.

L-28 And then, not long ago, I was coming out of a meeting. I--I passed by and seen that old place. You don't know how it made me feel.
I remember when we used to go to school down there, a little old fellow. I didn't have no clothes to wear, and getting ragged. I remember I went to school all winter one time with a coat on. A rich lady had give me that. And I didn't have no shirt. I took this coat, it had a little old eagle on the arm. And I thought that was the prettiest thing. And--and I'd take this coat. And I had a big catch then, I'd pin it up like this. And so kinda got on till the springtime, and it was awful hot. Teacher said, "William, why don't you take off that coat."
I--I said, "I'm chilly." I couldn't take that off; I didn't have on no shirt.
So she said, "Well, you're probably catching a cold, William. Come over here to the stove." My. She put on that stove on over there, an old country school there, you know, and the sweat just run off of me. She said, "Are you comfortable?"
I said, "Yes, ma'am."
I--I couldn't get that coat off there, why, I had no shirt on, I just couldn't do it. I went home. And they had to be some arrangements made for that, you know, because I didn't... I'd... She'd see me... I'd just set all winter with that coat on, till...

L-29 I remember one of my cousins that come over to see us. And the... She... They had the three of them, two boys and a girl, and the girl was about my age. So she left one of her dresses there. See? I took the skirt part, cut it off real low down here and put it on for a shirt. I went to school, you know. And it had that little, you know, little stuff on it. What is it they call it? Riff-raft? That... Rick-rack. That's what it is. Little rick-rack all over the sides of it. [Congregation laughs--Ed.] I said something wrong there, didn't I? What is it? That's what it was. Yes, sir. It was all over it, you know. And so I--I... Some of them said... laughing at me.
And I said, "Why, what do you think that is? That's part of my Indian suit." Sure looked funny with all that stuff on it. Oh, my, what a life.


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