. The dune country . s away fish, on his varioustrips, to people who cannot afiford to buy themand to whom the food is most welcome, and ex-tends credit to others who he knows can never does all kinds of little errands that his routesmake possible, and altogether he is a simple, good-natured soul. Like everybody else, he is an infinitesimal itemin the scheme of creation, but there are many otheritems that are much more objectionable than Cat-fish John. Cleanliness may be next to godliness,but it is often associated with cussedness, so we cansafely leave the matter of Johns redemption to
. The dune country . s away fish, on his varioustrips, to people who cannot afiford to buy themand to whom the food is most welcome, and ex-tends credit to others who he knows can never does all kinds of little errands that his routesmake possible, and altogether he is a simple, good-natured soul. Like everybody else, he is an infinitesimal itemin the scheme of creation, but there are many otheritems that are much more objectionable than Cat-fish John. Cleanliness may be next to godliness,but it is often associated with cussedness, so we cansafely leave the matter of Johns redemption toother agencies than soap. Sipes once wisely remarked that its no usetryin to tell evrybody wot to do all the time,an Ive quit. If evry fellerd mind is own busi- [146] CATFISH JOHN ness instid o buttn in an tryin to boss evrybodyelse, thered be a lot less fussin goin on. Theonly way to git John clean ud be to burn im, antheys a lot o clean-lookin people thatll cometo that long fore he does. Hes a nice ol feller. [147].
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