<TITLE>18. Par 61-64</TITLE>L-61 You know what a fried apple pie is, a half-moon turnover? I'm sure I'm at home. So them... You know, I--I like that with molasses on it. See? And I don't like to sprinkle them. I--I baptize, you know. I really pour it on them. I like plenty of molasses on my pie. So I--I just love them things.
And so then, she was eating this fried apple pie. And said, "The day before there, she was in such a fix, till we couldn't even... They could no more put her on the bed pan; that they had to just use a draw sheet." And said, "Me and my wife went up there and changed her bed twice a day." And said, "The doctor give her up about six weeks before that, and just give her enough phenobarbital to last her until she was gone. The cancer... They opened her up and just covered her over, so..." Said, "There's no need of fooling with her any more." And said, "And you know, she was setting there eating, and jumped up, and run shook hands with us." And said...
I said, "You don't say so."
Said, "Yeah." Said "Now..." And said, "If you don't believe it," said, "you go right up there and see. She'll tell you herself." See, he was preaching back to me then. Let him testify awhile.

L-62 I said, "Oh, you don't believe that, do you?"
He said, "Sure." Said, "If you don't believe it, you go right... You go right up there on the hill and find out. I'll take you up there."
I said, "Uh-huh." Said, "No." I said, "I'll take your word for it." See? I said, "I take your word for it." I said, "Say, who was that guy?"
"I don't know." Said, "He's from out in Indiana, and they said he's going to come down here again." Said, I'm going to him when he comes." Said, "I'm going to walk up to him and say, 'I want to tell you something, preacher. Tell me how in the world that you knew that, when you was never in this country before.'" (I hadn't been. See?) Said, "How would you ever know that?"
I said, "Yes, sir. Well, I sure hope you meet him." I said, "I hope he helps you."
And he said, "Well, I'm going." He was chewing tobacco, you know, and he spit down like that, and leaves...

L-63 And I said, "And you mean to tell me now... Back to this tree." I said, "I'm amazed at that." And I said, "You know, we haven't even had a cool night, no frost nor nothing." And I said, "Those leaves are dropping off of that tree on the ground. And that's why we come over here, as out of them flat woods, where the leaves are dropping down, drying, and to get in these hollows here, where they fall in the water and get wet." I said, "And you... what in the world is them leaves dropping off that tree for?"
"Well," he said, "the life left them."
I said, "The what?"
He said, "The life left them."
"Left the leaf?"
"Yeah." He said, "That's what makes it drop off."
I said, "Well, we haven't had any frost or any sign of any cold weather."
He said, "Well, it just--it leaves them."
And I said, "Well, what happens to the life?"
He said, "It goes down to the root of the tree."
I said, "What do you mean?"
Said, "Well, the winter would freeze it, and it would kill that germ of life in the tree."
And I said, "Then it goes down to the--to the root of the tree to hide there, until when?"
He said, "Till springtime."
"And it brings you up another mess of apples, and a bunch of leaves?"
"Yes, sir."

L-64 "Huh," I said, "that's strange." I said, "I--I'd like to ask you something."
He said, "Yes, sir."
I said, "What intelligence tells that tree, that life in that tree, that wintertime's a-coming? 'And if you don't get out of these limbs and get down here, and covered with these roots, that you'll die.' And that life obeys that intelligence, and goes down into the root of the tree, and stays down there until the wintertime's past, and then brings up a leaf again?" I said, "What intelligence does that, sir?"
And he said, "Oh, it's a nature."
I said, "What is nature?"
He said, "Well, it just actually does that." He seen my point (See?), and he's trying to hide from it. He said, "Well," he said, "You see, it..."


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