<TITLE>07. Par 66-84</TITLE>L-66 And--and, course, you Arizona people here, I suppose... How many knows what Kentucky gray squirrels are? How many ever seen gray squirrels? Oh, well, what part of Kentucky you from? So then I feel really at home. So there's nothing better to eat in the world. If they have, I've never found it.

L-67   So we went down on a two-weeks vacation, to hunt, and it was really dry. And those little fellows, oh, my, can they scat! And we was shooting with.22 rifles, and it got so dry we couldn't hunt. And Mr. Wood said, "Brother Branham, I--I know where there is a--a man that's got about five or six hundred acres, and has got hills and hollows down there, where the waters comes down through the creek." Said, "It'd be wet. We could walk in those creek bottom, wouldn't scare them." But said, "He's an infidel."
I said, "Well, let's go try him."

L-68 So we went across the country and through the woods, and over the hills, little hog paths like, until we come up to a house, and two old men with slouched down hats setting under a tree. And he said, "That's him on the other side." Said, "He's a hard boy." And so we stopped.

L-69 And I said, "Maybe you better go, if you know him. I better set in the car."
He said, "All right."

L-70 So he got out and walked around. He said, "How do you do?" And he said, "My name is Wood." He said, "My name is Banks Wood." He said, "I just wonder if it would be possible if we could hunt here a while." Said, "We been hunting over here on another creek." He said, "It's dry over there; we can't hunt."

L-71   He said, "Are you Jim Wood's boy?" Now, his father was a reader in the Jehovah Witness. He's one of the readers. Said, "Honest, very fine man!"
He said, "I'm his son."

L-72 He said, "Well, Jim Wood is one of the most honest people I ever met." Said, "You just have your choice, hunt anywhere you want to."

L-73 Said, "Thank you, sir." Said, "I brought my pastor along. I guess it's all right for him to go."

L-74 And he said, "You don't mean you've got so lowdown you have to carry a preacher with you where you go?" And he said...

L-75 I thought I better get out, so I got out of the car and walked around. I said, "How do you do?"

L-76 He said, "How do you do?" And he said, "You know, I guess I'm kind of a hard guy against you fellows."

L-77 I said, "Well, every man to his thought." I wanted to hunt. And so he said then... Said, "I guess you can, every fellow to his own thought."

L-78   And he said, "Yes." He said, "There is nothing I have against you but just one thing." He said, "You're barking up the wrong tree."

L-79 How many knows what that means? That's a lying dog, you see, barking, the tree, "the coon is here," when he's gone. There ain't a coon up there. See?
He said, "You're barking up the wrong tree."
I said, "Well, that's to opinion."

L-80 And my mammy always told me, she said, "You just give the cow enough rope, she'll hang herself." So I thought I was going to give him plenty of rope, so I let--let him go ahead and talk.

L-81 He said, "Well," he said, "I've been on this country here... That old chimney up there is where the original home burned, about sixty years ago. My father built this place. I've lived here, walked over these places now." Said, "I'm seventy-six years old. And I've never seen no God, no Angel, or nothing else." Said, "Therefore," said, "I... There isn't none."
I said, "Well, of course, that's still to opinion," I said.

L-82   He said, "Well, I just think you fellows are just going around making a easy living."
I thought, "Oh, boy, if you only knew what it is! Easy?"
And he said, "I think you all just make an easy living."

L-83 I said, "Yes, sir." I said, "Yeah. Well," I said, "still, that's just to opinion."

L-84 And he said, "Well," he said, "that's what I believe about it." He said, "You're just barking at the wrong tree." And he said...
I said, "Was you ever in church?"


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