All I say is, kings is kings, and you got to make allowances. Take them all around, they're a mighty ornery lot. It's the way they...'re raised.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We all went to church, about three mile, everybody a-horseback. The men took their guns along, so did Buck, and kept them between ...their knees or stood them handy against the wall. The Shepherdson's done the same. It was pretty ornery preaching--all about brotherly love, and such-like tiresomeness; but everybody said it was a good sermon, and they all talked it over going home, and had such a powerful lot to say about faith, and good works, and free grace, and preforeordestination, and I don't know what all, that it did seem to me to be one of the roughest Sundays I had run across yet.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »