You b'ars
witness yourse'f that where churches exists the commoonity is the
most orderly an' fuller of quietood an' peace.'
"'Not necessarily I don't,' I replies back, for I'm goin' to play my
hand out if it gets my last chip, 'not necessarily. What I b'ars
witness to is that where the commoonity is the most orderly that a-
way an' fuller of quietood an' peace, the churches exists.'
"'Which I'm shorely some afraid,' he says,--an' his looks shows he's
gettin' a horror of me,--'you belongs to a perverse generation. You-
all is vain of your own evil-doin'. Look at them murders that
reddens the West, an' then sit yere an' tell me it don't need no
inflooences.'
"'Them ain't murders,' I answers; them's killin's. An' as for
inflooenccs, if you-all don't reckon the presence of a vig'lance
committee in a camp don't cause a gent to pause an' ponder none
before he pulls his gun, you dwells in ignorance. However, I'm yere
to admit, I don't discern no sech sin-encrusted play in a killin'
when the parties breaks even at the start, an' both gents is workin'
to the same end unanimous. It does some folks a heap of good to kill
'em a lot.'
"It's at this p'int the young preacher-sharp pulls his freight, an'
I observes, by the way he stacks me up with his eyes that a-way, he
allows mebby I'm locoed.
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