<TITLE>05. Par 48-63</TITLE>L-48 He said, "You're barking up the wrong tree." And how many knows what that means? See? It means it's a lying dog, you see; the coon's not up there at all, see. He said, "You're barking up the wrong tree."
I said, "That's to opinion."

L-49 And he said, "Well," he said, "look, you see that old chimney standing up there?"
"Yes."

L-50 "I was borned up there, seventy-five years ago." And said, "I've lived right here in these hills all along through all these years." And said, "I've looked towards the skies, I've looked here and there, and, surely, in all these seventy-five years, I would have seen something that looked like God. Didn't you think so?"

L-51 I said, "Well, it depends on what you're looking at. See, what you're looking for."

L-52   And he said, "Well," he said, "I--I certainly don't believe there is such a creature. And I believe you fellows just simply get out and swindle the people out of their money and everything. And that's the way it goes."

L-53 I said, "Well, you're an American citizen, you have a right to your own--own thinking."

L-54 He said, "There's one guy, one time, that I heard of," he said, "that I would sure... If he... If I would ever get to talk with that fellow," said "I'd like to--to ask him a few questions."
I said, "Yes, sir."

L-55 He said, "It was a preacher, you might know him." Said, "He had a meeting up here in Campbellsville, not long ago, in a church yard up there, a campground." And he said, "I forget his name." Said, "He's from Indiana."
And--and I said, "Oh? Yes, sir."

L-56 And Brother Wood started to say, "Well, I..." ("Don't say that.") And so he said...
I said, "What about him?"

L-57   He said, "Well," he said, "old lady..." (somebody) "up there on the hill..." Said, "You know, she was dying with cancer." And said, "Wife and I would go up there of a morning to--to change her bed." Said, "They couldn't even raise her up high enough to put her on the bedpan," said, "just had to pull a draw sheet." And said, "She was dying. She had been to Louisville, and said the doctors had give her up and said she was 'going to die.'

L-58 "And her sister went up to that meeting, and said, 'That preacher was standing up there on the platform, looked back over the audience and called this woman by name, and told her, "When she left, she took a handkerchief and put it in her--her purse." And called this woman's name down here, twenty miles below here, and said how she was suffering with cancer, what her name was, and all she'd been through; said, "Take that handkerchief and go lay it on the woman," and said that "the woman will be healed of her cancer."'"

L-59   And said, "They come down here that night." Said, "Honest, I heard the awfulest screaming up there. I thought they had the Salvation Army turned loose on top of the hill up there. Said, 'Well,' I said, 'I guess the old sister's dead.' Said, 'We'll... Tomorrow we'll go and get the wagon, and how we take her out to get to the main road,' and said, 'so they can take her to the undertaker.' And said that the... We waited. No need of going up that time of night." Said, "It's about a mile up on the hill here." Said, "We went up there the next morning, and you know what happened?"
I said, "No, sir."

L-60 He said, "She was setting there eating fried apple pies, and drinking coffee, with her husband."
I said, "You mean that?"
He said, "Yes, sir."
"Oh!" I said. "Now, mister, you really don't mean that."

L-61 He said, "What bothers me is what... how did that man, and never in this country, and knew that." See?
And I said, "Oh, you don't believe that."
He said, "It's the truth."
I said, "You believe that?" See?

L-62   He--he said, "Well, go right up there on the hill, I can prove it to you." He's preaching back to me now, you see.

L-63 So I--I said, "Um-um." I picked up an apple, and--and I said, "Can I have one of these apples?" and I rubbed it on my clothes.


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