4
live
in
this
district?’
‘‘No,
sir,
but
I
like
smooth,
nice
roads
and
I
can’t
see
why
you
fellows
don’t
remove
these
little
mean
and
very
annoying
stones.’
“Well,”
says
he,
“may
be
if
you
knew
as
much
about
this
stony
point
as
we
do
perhaps
you
would
not
wonder.
You
will
find
in
a
few
days
just
as
many
stones
rolling
around
on
the
surface
as
there
are
here
today.”
“Well,
it
will
not
be
that
way
when
I
come
back
today,
will
it?’’
But
he
says,
“I
can’t
vouch
for
it,
for
every
loaded
wagon
that
comes
along
strikes
one
of
these
little
stones
and
sets
it
a
rolling
as
this
hill
is
just
full
of
them.
Now,’
says
he,
‘“‘there
is
only
one
of
two
ways
to
do—either
remove
the
hill
or
haul
in
enough
good
soil
to
cover
it
up
so
deep
that
these
miserable
little
annoyances
will
not
appear,
and
further,”’
he
says,
‘‘twenty-five
years
ago
this
road
was
perfectly
smooth
but
quite
abrupt.
But
time
and
usage
has
worn
off
the
smooth
surface
and
we
have
got
down
to
what
this
hill
is
made
of.””
‘‘Well,
it
looks
like
you
are
about
right,
and
I
understand
it
better.
While
you
discourage
me
a
little
I
have
one
thing
to
console
me
and
that
is
that
I
have
had
some
satisfaction
in
looking
down
the
road
with
these
stones
removed,
even
if
worse
ones
should
appear.
I
will
not
attempt
to
move
the
hill.
T
assure
you
I
will
leave
that
to
Him
who
made
it;
then
I
can
get
along
with
this
hill
better
than
to
have
a
big
hole
left
in
the
road,
and
the
other
alternative
is
too
big
a
job
for
me.”’
So
it
might
be
in
this
case.
Then
there
was
another
thing
that
encouraged
me
to
speak
my
mind.
That
was,
I
am
not
the
head,
be-
ginning
or
end
of
anything
in
the
denomination,
and
never
had
been
an
author
or
editor
for
this
people,
and
so
I
thought
I
was
perfectly
safe,
believing
that
Eld.
Jones
would
know
that
it
would
be
of
no
credit
to
his
cham-
pionship
as
editor,
author,
and
a
great
and
noted
evan-
gelist
to
load
his
rhetorical
gun
and
shoot
me
down.
The
very
fact
that
the
odds
were
so
great
would
prove
that
an
effort
of
this
kind
would
be
a
confession
of
the
weak-
ness
of
his
cause,
for
I
have
nothing
but
a
sling
and
am
securely
fortified
behind
‘‘Jones
No.
1,’
so
you
see
he
dare
not
fire
for
he
cannot
without
firing
into
him
and
he