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The Leatherwood God

The Leatherwood God

Howells, William Dean

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ISBN10: 115370871X
ISBN13: 9781153708715
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 94
Weight: 0.33
Height: 0.22 Width: 9.01 Depth: 5.98
Language: English
Excerpt: ...of all to pass Nancy where she sat at her door. She was that strong believer who in her utter trust, when she heard that cloth would be needed for the seamless raiment of his miracle, had offered to provide it; and now, neither in pride nor in shame, but in defiance of her unbelieving husband, she was bearing away from her house the bolt of linsey-woolsey newly home from the weaver, which was to have been cut into the winter's clothing of her children. She had spun the threads herself and dyed them, and they had become as if they were of her own flesh and blood. She carried the bolt wrapped about with her shawl, bearing it tenderly in her arms, as if it were indeed her flesh and blood, her babe which she was going to lay upon an altar of sacrifice. XII The crowd at Hingston's mill grew with the arrival of the unbelievers as well as the believers in Dylks. They came from all sides, sometimes singly and sometimes in groups, and the groups came disputing as often as agreeing among themselves. When a group was altogether believing they exchanged defiances with a party of those religious outcasts, the Hounds, disturbers of camp-meetings and baptisms, and notorious mockers, now, of the Leatherwood god in his services at the Temple. But the invitation given to see the promised miracle had been to all; the Hounds had felt in it the tenor of a challenge, and they had accepted it defiantly. They jeered at the believers as these arrived, sometimes hailing them by name; they neighed and whinnied, and shouted Salvation! and in the intervals of silence they burst out with the first lines of the Believers' hymn. There were those who mocked, I am God Almighty, The Father and the Son are one, and I am both of 'em put together, and Oh, Dylks, save us! Don't leave us, Dylks! Make the Devil jump, Joseph! Make him rattle his scales for us! Fetch on your miracle! The believing women turned away; some of the younger tittered hysterically at a droll...

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