We never tired of listening to his stories , and his quaint remarks and comments were a continual delight to us . Uncle Jesse was one of those interesting and rare people who , in the picturesque phraseology of the shore folks , `` never speak but they say something . '' The milk of human kindness and the wisdom of the serpent were mingled in Uncle Jesse 's composition in delightful proportions . One day he was absent all day and returned at nightfall . `` Took a tramp back yander . '' `` Back yander '' with Uncle Jesse might mean the station hamlet or the city a hundred miles away or any place between -- `` to carry Mr. Kimball a mess of trout . He likes one occasional and it 's all I can do for a kindness he did me once . I stayed all day to talk to him . He likes to talk to me , though he 's an eddicated man , because he 's one of the folks that 's got to talk or they 're miserable , and he finds listeners scarce ` round here . The folks fight shy of him because they think he 's an infidel . He ai n't that far gone exactly -- few men is , I reckon -- but he 's what you might call a heretic . Heretics are wicked but they 're mighty interesting . It 's just that they 've got sorter lost looking for God , being under the impression that He 's hard to find -- which He ai n't , never . Most of 'em blunder to Him after a while I guess . I do n't think listening to Mr. Kimball 's arguments is likely to do me much harm . Mind you , I believe what I was brought up to believe . It saves a vast of trouble -- and back of it all , God is good . The trouble with Mr. Kimball is , he 's a leetle too clever . He thinks he 's bound to live up to his cleverness and that it 's smarter to thrash out some new way of getting to heaven than to go by the old track the common , ignorant folks is travelling . But he 'll get there sometime all right and then he 'll laugh at himself . ''
* * * * * Nothing ever seemed to put Uncle XXXXX out or depress him in any way .
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