do over in Hazlan. An' atter the thing
was over, I steps up to the preacher an'
I says:

``Brother,'' I says, ``YOU spoke a
parable, shore.''




THE PASSING OF ABRAHAM SHIVERS


``I tell ye, boys, hit hain t often a
feller has the chance o' doin' so much
good jes by DYIN'. Fer 'f Abe Shivers
air gone, shorely gone, the rest of us--
every durn one of us--air a-goin' to be
saved. Fer Abe Shivers--you hain't
heerd tell o' ABE? Well, you must be a
stranger in these mountains o' Kaintuck,
shore.

``I don't know, stranger, as Abe ever
was borned; nobody in these mountains
knows it 'f he was. The fust time I ever
heerd tell o' Abe he was a-hollerin' fer his
rights one mawnin' at daylight, endurin'
the war, jes outside o' ole Tom Perkins'
door on Fryin' Pan. Abe was left thar