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 Jesse out or depress him in any way . `` I 've kind of contracted a habit of enjoying things , '' he remarked once , when Mother had commented on his invariable cheerfulness . `` It 's got so chronic that I believe I even enjoy the disagreeable things . It 's great fun thinking they ca n't last . ` Old rheumatiz , ' I says , when it grips me hard , ` you 've got to stop aching sometime . The worse you are the sooner you 'll stop , perhaps . I 'm bound to get the better of you in the long run , whether in the body or out of the body . ' '' Uncle Jesse seldom came to our house without bringing us something , even if it were only a bunch of sweet grass . `` I favour the smell of sweet grass , '' he said . `` It always makes me think of my mother . '' `` She was fond of it ? '' `` Not that I knows on . Dunno 's she ever saw any sweet grass .
No , it 's because it has a kind of motherly perfume -- not too young , you understand -- something kind XXXXX seasoned and wholesome and dependable -- just like a mother . ''
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