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in the fire, yor shore it git burned.

"We all goes to church here. I am a Missionary Baptist, but I doan
go as often as the rest of folks. I doan hold no office in the
church neither. The folks here goes pretty regular, but not me. That's
all there is to do here, is go to church and drink shine.

"But drinkin shine keeps the men well, especially when they gotta
work out in them woods in the water, they just gotta have somethin hot in
them. Hit seems to keep them from gittin sick too. Of course iffen any
of us'uns gits sick, the company pays fer hit and we kin call whatever
doctor we wants. This here is checked out of a special fund we carry.
But this place is pretty healthy, in spite of the low land. I guess
hit's on account of the high pines all aroun us. There's a few of the
workers what's ever sick, includin me and Lula. I haint been sick in
years. Of course some gits sick now and then, but not often.

"Well I reckons hit's about time fer me to be goin on, Joe and me
gotta lots of work to do this afternoon. How about comin back when we
gits to distillin the turpentine? You'll like thet."

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