<TITLE>11. Par 39-41</TITLE>L-39 So we stopped down there at a place to get some sandwiches. You get a great, big ham sandwich for a nickel. So I was--I was the sport of the crowd. I was going in, and was going to get some ham sandwiches. So I got some sandwiches, and come out with some Cokes, and we drank the Cokes and ate the sandwich, and I thought, "Oh, my. I'm a real fellow now. Somebody likes me, and oh, my, we just having a good time."
And just along about that time, where women begin to backslide enough to smoke cigarettes. And when I come back out, my little queen was smoking a cigarette.
Well, I've always had my opinion of a woman that would smoke a cigarette. It's the lowest thing she could do. And I haven't changed my opinion a bit. If God... If the Holy Spirit that deals with me... If you expect to get to heaven, you'd better stop 'fore you get there with that stuff. That's right.

L-40 Now, I'm not here to preach the Gospel. These... There are  ministers here do that. But let me tell you something, women: it's a disgrace to the world. See her with... When I get statistics from the government, shows that eighty percent of the babies that's born has to be raised on cows milk. If they nurse from their mother, they'd die within eighteen months on account of nicotine poison.
Communists, fifth columnists? Listen, brother, don't you fear about Russia coming over here and doing anything, or Germany, or any other nation. It's our own rottenness that's killing us. It ain't the robin that pecks on the apple that hurts the apple; it's the worm at the core that kills the apples. We're becoming so demoralized till no wonder we're breaking. We're breaking ourselves. All right, so much for that.

L-41 Anyhow, she was smoking this little cigarette. I looked at her, and, my, she sure passed out of my view. And I--I looked at her, and I could hardly believe it was her, that pretty little girl, setting there smoking that cigarette. She was blowing it through her nose, you know, sickening looking. Any man let his wife smoke cigarettes, shows what he's made out of. That's right. That's right. That's exactly. Brother, mine may do it, if she does, she's got the same door to go out of that she come in there with. That's exactly right. Setting there smoking... Shows who's boss at the house. Setting there, it's bad enough, and too bad for men. And there she was setting there blowing that smoke through her nose. I thought, "Well, poor girl."
She said, "You have a cigarette, Billy?"
And I said, "No, ma'am. Thanks. I don't smoke."
She said, "Now, they... You say you don't dance." She is one of these little pop, or snicklefritz type, you know. She said, "You don't dance. And--and you said you don't drink, and now, you don't smoke." She said, "What do you like to do?"
And I said, "Well, I like to hunt and fish."
That didn't interest her. So she--she said, "Why, you big sissy."
Oh, my. I was going to be big, bad Bill. See? And here I was a sissy in her estimation.


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