WITH THE WOODLANDERS. 



ledgment on the people's part that these work for 

 good. The father of a young family observed to 

 me quite recently, "It ain't what I believes I 

 knows best about that but I don't want my young 

 ones to think as I do about things, leastways not 

 yet a while. Them 'ere Sunday-schools is good 

 things ; they don't larn nothin' but what's good 

 there." 



One worthy old soul, a mother in Israel, was wont 

 to expound to me, as we sat in the chimney-corner, 

 about visions and the Witch of Endor. These had 

 been ; "there was nothin' on the face o' the airth to 

 perwent sich things agin happenin'." I never said 

 a word, only nodded to her from time to time. 

 After a fresh pinch of snuff she would break out 

 again about the elect coming in a whirlwind with 

 their chariots of fire. Presently she would put on 

 her spectacles, and then we had it, chapter and 

 verse. 



Every now and again I nodded to her, just to let 

 her see I was following her very closely. She must 

 have been a shining light in the little Bethel she 

 attended, for I never heard so much in so short a 

 space of time in my life before, as she gave me one 



