<TITLE>09. Par 26-29</TITLE>L-26 I said, "But, sir, after all, the coon was there. He's just a dog." See? I hope he got what I meant, and I'm sure you do.
So he said, "So I shot him." And he said, "I don't--I don't like anything that'll lie. And I think if a man talks, he ought to be knowing what he's talking about."
I said, "I certainly agree with you."
He said, "There was one preacher that I heard, that if I ever get to see the man..." Said, "I never heard him, but I heard of him. If I ever get to see the man, I'm going to hear him."
And I said, "That's very nice."
He said, "He come to a little place over here called Acton. It's a Methodist campground." And Brother Wood looked at me, and I shook my head.
He said, "Old Sister So-and-so up on the hill here. I forget her... (He never called her Sister--Miss somebody) is about sixty-five." Said, "She was dying with cancer in the stomach." And said, "She had doctors out of Louisville here." And said, "They got a nice farm up there," and said, "they could afford it. They took her up to Louisville for an operation. Didn't do one bit of good. They cut her open, sewed her up. Cancer done wrapped her all through."

L-27 Said, "She gradually died here for several months." Said, "Finally got to a place that she was so bad and I..." (Excuse me my brother, sister.) Said they... (I'm just going to express it the way he said it.) She couldn't even get on to the bedpan. They could never put one under her, couldn't raise her that high. They had to use a draw sheet, rubber sheet, and then a draw sheet."
Said, "Wife and I went up there every morning and would change--the wife change her bed. And I'd help get the sheets out from under her, and so forth." And said, "She was just... The doctor said just give her a little morphine or something, to keep her as easy as possible until she died." Said "She had about two weeks to live."

L-28 And he said, "There come a preacher down here from Indiana, and had--over here at the Methodist campground." He said, "There's several hundreds of people gathered over there, they said, to hear this preacher." And he said, "And that night," said, "while he was preaching," said, "her sister was setting back there, which was Mrs. So-and-so that lives over here on another ridge." And said, "This preacher was supposed to have something another, that he could tell the people about what they had done, and why they were sick, and all about that." And said, "I'd heard about it, but of course, I didn't believe such a radical thing as that."
And he said, "But however, this woman that night was setting in the meeting. And while the minister was speaking, he turns to this woman, and her setting in the back of the building. And said, 'When you left home tonight, back there, Mrs. So-and-so,' said, 'you picked up a little blue han--a little handkerchief with a blue figure in the corner of it off of a dresser, and you put it in your purse.' And said, 'You're praying back there for your older sister who's dying, by the name of So-and-so, that lives over here on the hill.' Said, 'The Lord has heard your prayers. Now, take this little handkerchief and lay it upon your sister, and the cancer will leave her.'"

L-29 "Well," said, "about--around close to midnight that night, I thought they had the Salvation Army on the hillside up there, all the screaming and hollering."
I don't want to embarrass anybody, but that was Ben, setting here, Brother Ben. You know that familiar squall of an "Amen," he gives out every night in the meeting down there, that shakes the place. Brother Ben had took the woman up there, her, to her sister, and had laid the handkerchief on her, and Ben believed it. So he just started shouting before it happened. So he was just getting at it first. So Brother Ben...
He said, "I thought the woman had died. Well," said, "it was around midnight. So the next morning," said, "the wife and I went up there." And said, "You know what?" Said, "That woman was up, cooking her breakfast, eating fried apple pie."


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