<TITLE>05. Par 18-21</TITLE>L-18 And they got some famous rider to come in, and I seen he was going to get about, oh, I guess, two hundred dollars or more for riding a horse. And he... All of his big nice dude outfit on and he jumped in the saddle. When he come out, his catch-as-catch-can as he come out of the chute, and when he come out of there, that horse made just about one buck, a sunfish, the saddle went one way, the man went another way. The pick-ups got the horse, and the ambulance got the rider, and the blood was running out of his ears and eyes.
And the man come along side of the fence, said, "Any of you cowboys around here, any of you can ride that horse and stay on him for a minute, I'll give a hundred dollars a minute." So nobody said a word. He rode on down and looked right straight at me and me setting up there, you know, with just a pair of Levis on, looking high, matched up with the rest of the cowboys, you know. That's a kid. Looked like that, you know, and he walked right up to me and said, "Are you a rider?"
I said, "No, sir. No, sir." I knowed that wasn't pop's old, stiff plow horse. See? I knowed there was something different in that.
So then when I first got ordained as a minister, I used to pack my Bible under the arm. Some of them say, "You a preacher?"
"Yes, sir. Yes, sir. I'm a preacher."

L-19 One day I heard a full Gospel preacher preach in a tent meeting. He preached till he got out of breath; his face had turned red. He'd go plumb to the floor, buckle his knees and come back up catching his breath. You could hear him about two city blocks still preaching. Some of them said, "Are you a preacher?"
I said, "No, sir." I was no more preacher then, after I heard a man that could preach. And I... So I always be careful about saying being a preacher. You see? But I do like to get to a place where we can have a--you know, enjoy the blessings of the Lord, don't you?

L-20 Little Mr. Osborn setting out there reminds me. He was talking this morning, he and I, the little boy, and it reminds me of one time... See a good, old fashion Holy Ghost meeting... Who likes them kind? Do you like it? Say, "Amen." Why, sure we do.
What we used to call a popcorn meeting... You know what a popcorn meeting is? You take a little yellow grain of corn and put it on a hot stove. It gets twice the size and twice as light, and it turns from yellow to white. That's a popcorn meeting. That's what it takes.
A little fellow scared to testify and bumps up all at once, ready for the rapture and changes his garment from a little yellow to a white...

L-21 Reminds me one time I was a fishing one morning. I guess I got plenty of fellow friends here, fisherman. This lake this close, and I was way up in north woods a fishing and I--I just--just love pancakes. How many likes pancakes? Oh, my. I just love pancakes, and I used to take me a bucket of molasses, you know, a whole, big bucket 'cause I'm a Baptist. I baptize them. I don't sprinkle them. I pour it on heavy when I get it on there, the molasses, you know, get them real thick all over it.
So then I--I thought, "Oh, my, now if I can just get this..." Took me a big bucket molasses, you know, and I was up there, and I had a little, old tent. There was a lot of black bear in that woods. Your boy had some experience the other day with one. So, oh, they are nothing to them. I don't know where they ever got that bad name he's got, but he's--just what he tears up. Oh, my. He's--he's awful.


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