<TITLE>02. Par 6-10</TITLE>L-6 I guess that's all foreign to you people down here. And have sorghum molasses... I looked over to a fellow from Georgia. He kind of smiled. He knows what sorghum molasses is. I wonder how many here knows what sorghum molasses is? What part of Kentucky you from, sister? Yes. Well, I sure love them. And we used to skin the sorghum and have a great time.
Now, an old what... We come from the old Southern Missionary Baptist, where we'd have gatherings and have dinner on the ground, have footwash. How many knows what feetwashing is? Having feet...? Oh, that come right on over in to the Pentecostal church. We'd have great times there, great jubilees.

L-7 And now, we are gathered now for a different kind of a jubilee, a spiritual jubilee. Which we're all acquainted with the things, and the goodness of God, and His mercy.
I remember here before, there was some fine people. I may mispronounce this--this Norwegian name or Swedish, ever what it was. I... seem to me like her name was Bentinrude, or Binsrude, or something. They taken me out here to shoot some geese one morning. And I tell you, their kindness was so good, it liked to kill me.
After I got through service that night, they had a great big... Well, we call it down in the States, supper. I think you call it up here, dinner. I--I always get mixed up in that. If--if--if that is--is dinner, then when am I going to have supper? See, I--I get all mixed up and miss a meal somewhere if that--if that--if the evening time is dinner.

L-8 Now, down in the South, we call it our breakfast, our dinner, and our supper. Then if this is my dinner over here at last, then what become of my dinner? See, where... then where... If this is my dinner, then where's my supper coming in at? Next morning, you say it's breakfast. So I don't get it just right. So anyhow, I'll say it the way that I knew it best. I had two suppers.
I had one out there and then I got to bed about, oh, I suppose about one o'clock, or twelve o'clock. And about four o'clock the next morning they had me up with a... my breakfast. And I was out in the field, some oat patch, digging out a hole to crawl into, to hide from the geese.

L-9 And then, we got back about two hours later. I--I... All these here suppers that I mixed--missed up here, it was all paid for over there, 'cause I come back in and had another breakfast. So I had two for that day. So I was all... Never will forget those people. I hope I get to see them while I'm here.
They had some people up at Dawson Creek. One of them was a minister. I don't know, but it seemed to me like I... Am I pronouncing that name right? Bentrentrude, Bentzrude, Bensrude? One of them was a minister. Einar, I believe, or Ined? Einar? Iver, Iver. Great big fellow, fine fellow and he was... Say I hope... What? Iver Bentenrude. Well, well, well, me standing here talking about him and here him standing, listening at me. I better quit talking about that, right now. All right.

L-10 Is your father and mother gone on, Brother Bentenrude? Both of them. I never forget those little Norwegians. I was in his home, his parsonage out there. And I was staying there for a few days at a little place, Ground Birch. Is that right? And the little mother and father Bentenrude, little old Norwegians. I... Is that right? Or Swedish? One of the Scandinavia... Norwegian. Up there in the home and papa goes down to get him--get some groceries at the little store. And mama was setting at the window, you know, and she kept pulling back the curtain, watching for him to come.


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