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 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 XXXXX you in the long run , whether in the body or out of the body . ' ''
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