<TITLE>02. Par 4-5</TITLE>L-4 This afternoon we want to approach the Word. And now, just for awhile, and then so you can get out early, I probably in the next forty-five minutes... And now, that would be plenty long, if we'll just put our whole heart in the Word and let Christ have His way with us. Then tonight...
If I'm not mistaken, I believe I see my good friend, Brother and Sister Collins back there from Kentucky, Louisville. That's mighty fine. Brother Collins, Sister Collins, good friends of mine, he's a Methodist minister, and his brother also.
And glad... What are you all up in this country about? You're a long ways from home. Isn't this beautiful, tropical weather? This is what I like. Oh, I can stand this, but not that heat, it just melts me down. I like this.
Something about it, the snow, a dry snow and hear it crunching under the wheels reminds me of when I was a boy and we used to drive the--the old buckboard wagon. How many knows what a buckboard is? I told my wife I should've wore my overalls this afternoon. That's just exactly right. I'm right around with folks raised on a farm like I was. Oh, I tell you, there's not much in this dressing, you know and I... My favorite way of dress is a pair of overalls. I just love that, raised in them.

L-5 Remember, when we used to go swimming as little boys? I never had a shirt on from about May until after September, and it used to... Didn't have what we call gallouses. You all call them suspenders up here, I guess, in the north.
And I had a fodder twine. How many know what a fodder twine is? Fodder twine. There is some folks still here from the country. And I didn't have a button; I had a nail for a button. Did you ever do that? Brother Wood, what's the matter with your hand? I never seen it up though.
And we would run to the creek you know, and we would want to play banner-maker. The first one in, you know, would find out how the water was. If the water was cold, we'd hold up one finger. If the water was good and warm, we held two fingers. See? So I was usually the first one in, 'cause I didn't have much to take off. So I just run just hard as I could, and just when I got there, just pull that one nail, you know; you was ready, that little pair of overalls was just standing in the air, and I hit the water, you know.
So I hold up two fingers this afternoon; the water's fine; come on in. There's something about childhood, those golden days we never forget, do we? It's just wonderful.


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