<TITLE>12. Par 46-48</TITLE>L-46 And so, there was an old apple tree standing there, and--and a lot of them falled on the ground, you know. It was around about the middle of August, and yellow jackets was... You know what a yellow jacket is? They was sucking around on them apples, you know. So I said--thought I'd better change the subject right quick, you know, so I said, "You mind if I have one of them apples?"
He said, "Oh, not at all." Said, "Yellow jackets are eating them." So I got down, got a hold of one, and just rubbed it on the dirty overalls. When you're in Rome, you have to be a Roman, you know.
So I said, "Well..." I took a bite of the apple, and stood there a little bit.
He said, "Yeah, that's the thing against you fellows. You're always..." Said, "The only thing it is, you're just sponging off the people, living off of charity."
I said, "Yeah, that's true. We live by the alms of the people, free will. They don't have to come. See? They believe it, and they support it."

L-47 He said, "Well," he said, "there is no such a thing. I've never seen anything declare such things. I can look plumb up as far as my eyes can see, I don't see no God, see nothing else." So blind, you know. And so, he said, "I don't see nothing. Don't see no God. I've been here for seventy-six years, and I ain't seen nothing yet."
He said, "I'll say one thing. There was one preacher one time, about two years ago, that come up here to Acton, at the Methodist campground." Said, "He was a fellow from out in Indiana." He said, he... "Old lady Casshorn (I believe was her name)," said, "lives here up on top of the hill, right up yonder." And said, "She had cancer in the stomach." And said, "Me and my wife had been going up there of a morning." Said, "We couldn't put her on the bed pan no more (Excuse this sisters, you all...?...)," but said, "we just had to use a draw sheet (rubber beneath, you know), and pull the draw sheet." Said, "Me and my wife went up there every morning and every evening, and changed her bed and fixed her. Her and her husband lives up there." And said, "Doctors had been seeing her." And said, "She'd been doctoring this cancer for about a year." And said, "She had got to a place till they didn't even come back no more, just staying alive on dope."

L-48 Said, "This preacher from Indiana never was down in here before," and said, "and they, having a meeting up there." Said, "It was--I guess it was close to fifteen hundred people in this..." That Acton is just a little bitty, tiny... I think the population is about twenty (See?), but they have a campground there.
And so, he said, "The second night there when preaching," said, "he looked back in the audience, and said to this woman's sister... Called her by name, and told her when she left home she took a little white handkerchief with a little blue figure in the corner of it, and she had it in her pocketbook; she had a sister named So-and-so over here was dying with cancer, come, put this handkerchief upon her, and she'd get well."
And said, "That night about ten o'clock," said, "I thought they had the Salvation Army up there on top of the hill. I never heard so much noise in my life. We thought the old lady had died. So..."


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