<TITLE>10. Par 35-37</TITLE>L-35 When they brought them up, those airplanes come down to get those Jews, they were still plowing with old wooden instruments, like they did hundreds and thousands of years ago. (They still do it in South Africa.) So then when... We find out that they was afraid of that airplane. They was scared to get in it. One old rabbi stepped out there and said, "Don't be afraid." He said, "Our prophet promised us that someday we'd go to the homeland on the wings of an eagle." That big TWA plane raised up with them Jews, that's what the prophet saw. He--he didn't know what it was. He should've called it an airplane. He said, "It's eagles' wings they'll come back on," seen that old airplane raise up down there twenty-five hundred years ago. Now, it's coming to pass right now, bringing them back on the wings of the eagle.

L-36 That eagle is a bird, quite a bird. Up in Cincinnati Zoo... I like to take the children up there. One way, I hate to see anything penned up in a cage. I feel so sorry, for I love wildlife. But I--I don't have any, not even a dog at home, 'cause I'd have to keep him tied. I hate to see anything in prison, anything but a prison house. Put them poor animals in there for everybody to come and stare at them, look around. I think it's--it's just pathetic. And then I think about if I just had the money, I'd buy them all, take them back to their homelands, and turn it loose, and say, "Go on, now run as hard as you can. Get away." I don't blame...
A bunch of painted-up things standing around looking at them, puffing cigarette smoke in their nose, oh, my, I'd hate to be standing there like that myself. It ought--it ought to be just the other side. The cigarette puffer ought to be in there. He'd be more of a thing--something to cage up. He don't know enough to take care of himself.
Then the first thing we know... I went down, took my little girl, Sarah. We was walking along hand-to-hand. We went down to the birds, and there was a great big cage down there. They just must've caught this big fellow--was a great big eagle. They'd put him there. Oh, he was mammoth big fellow, great big feet, looked like could pick up a calf and fly away with it. Well, I--I heard a flopping down there and the feathers a flying. I thought, "What's the matter?" So Sarah and I walked down there. She was a little bitty tot.

L-37 And I just have so much fun out of my children. Don't you love children? This little Sarah... Just a few years ago I'd been in a meeting, and I come home one night, and they was waiting up for daddy to come in. They're both daddy's little girls, you know. So they--they was waiting and I didn't get in till real late. So mama put them to bed. And I got in about two or three o'clock.
And I was so worked up from the meetings, them visions and things work me up so bad, till I couldn't sleep. So I got up about six o'clock, went into the parlor, and sat down in a--in a chair. I was just setting there, thinking about the meeting. All at once, I heard down in the--the girl's room there a lot of noise. And--and I looked and here come Becky, my oldest. She's kind of long-legged, you know. And--and Sarah's a little bitty fellow. And so, here come Becky as hard as she could, just a running. And she jumped right a straddle my lap like that, and throwed both arms around me, begin to hug me, hollering, "Daddy, daddy, daddy."
And I looked back there. You know, that just makes a man's heart swell out. And I looked, and here come her little sister, Sarah with hand-me-downs. You know how the second one always gets pajama feet about that much too long, you know. She put me in mind of the little interdenominational church, and the--the other long-legged had been around a long time, you know, so kind of been here a long, knowed a lot of things.


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