Barlow. "Oh, I think it is! Brother Mark Barlow
says he can hear the Lord speakin' to him jest as plain as they could in
Old Testament times; oh, yes, jest as plain exactly; Abraham and all
them, yew know! And Brother Mark Barlow generally means to go to Sunday
school. He says he thinks it's so interestin'; but it's sich an awful
ways. Don't yew think it is? Oh, yes, it's a dreadful ways! He don't
always. But yew remember that Saturday we had sich a dreadful storm? oh,
wasn't it dreadful! Oh, yes! Well, the next day, that was Sunday, Brother
Mark Barlow said he heard the Lord sayin' to him, jest as plain as day;
'Mark Barlow, don't you go to Sunday school to-day! You stay home and
pick up laths!' and he did, and oh, he got a dreadful pile! most ten
dollars worth; but I think it's so nice, don't yew, to have direct
dealin's with the Almighty!"
The Barlows, by the way, were regarded with a sort of contemptuous
toleration by the Wallencampers in general, on account of their thrift
and penuriousness, the branded qualities of sordid and unpoetic natures.
I was sorry when the brief hour of the noon intermission was over, and I
had to go back to school.
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