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Show horly thnt 'varn 't too yonng or too , ick or too ol(l was g-on to ca1np-1nr lting, about two 111il<\ back in the wood~. Tlw ki11g got t b clir ct ion , and allowed he'd go nnrl \\·ork thai campInecting for all it was worth, and I 1night go, i no. The dnkc said what he ·was after 'vas a printing officP. \Ye found jt; a little bit of a concern, up ovrr n cnrpcntcr ~hopearp ntcrs and 1wint rs all gone to the meetinrr, an<l no door~ locked. It was a rlirty, littered-up place, and had ink nwrk., and handbills wiLh pictures of hor ,' and run~nray nigg<'r: on them, all ov r the walls. The <luke . heel lti: coat n1Hl ~aid l1~ wa all right, now. So 1ne and the king lit out for 1 he eampm~ eting. ~T e got there in about a half an honr, fairly dripping, for jt· was a 1nost ~nvfnl hot clay. Th re was as much n.· a thon:an<1 people th re, from twenty 1nile around. Tlv: ''"oo<l wn.· full of 1 emns an<l wagons, hitched cverywh re ', feeding o11t of the " -agon trough. and stomping to keep off the ftie.. Tbrrc wns sh cl mad ont of pol s and roo£ d over with branch . , ·whrre 1 h y ha<.ll monade and gingerbread to sell, ancl pil s of wal rrInelon and green corn and such-like truck. The pr aching wa going on under the sa1ne kinds of .·11cd:, only th y \vas bigger and held crowd of p ople. The bcnche. \Yas n1ade out of ant ·icle labs of log , \vith hole hor d in the r und ·idr to dri\' sticks into for legs. They <lidn't ha\' 110 back.. Th preachers had hjgh platfonns to stan<l on nt onr ('nd of ih shecls. The won1en had on sun-bonnet· ; ~1nd . ome had lin. y-woolsey frock:, . o1nc ginglunn ones, a11<l a fe\v of the young n r: had on calico. Some of ih young 111 n \ra. · bare· footed, and some of the children didn't have on any clothe.· lmt j n, t a tow-linen ~birt. Rome of tho old women \Yas knii 1 i ng, and so1ne of the young folks ·was courting on the sly. The fir3t shed we come to, the preacher was lining out a hymn. lie lined out i\vo lines, everybody sung it, and it wn. 1D7 to(incl of gnnHl to hcnr it, 1 h rc wa~ ~o 1n:n1y of th rn ~1ncl tlH·y doll<' it in ·nch a rousi1lg " ·ny; then he lined oui two 1nurc for t h<'JH to ~ing-and so ou. Th' people wok up n1or and n1on' anc1 ~nng 1ouc1 rand louder; <nHl towarcls th(' e1Hl :on1c bcrru b 11 to grnau, a1Hl :-;onu\ begun to :houL Then th , preach r begun "COl' ltTl>;<: 0~ Til 1; :->L'l." 1 n prc·ach; and begun in earnr ·t, too; anc1 went " ·caving fir~t to one ~·id ofth) platfonn and then the other, ctlH.l tl1 n a leanillg down OY r the front of it, with hi.· ann.· a11lll1is body crnjng all the ti1ne and shoutino· hi words out with all lti. 1night; :nHl every now and then he would hold up his Bible and .·prcad |