II
BUT it was of another kind of knowledge he oftenest spoke, and of which I shall try to tell you, in his own words as nearly as possible.
First let me say that if there should seem to be the faintest tinge of irreverence in aught I write, I tell my story badly. There was no irreverence in Fishin' Jimmy. He possessed a deep and profound veneration for all things spiritual and heavenly; but it was the veneration of a little child, mingled as is that child's with perfect confidence and utter frankness. And he used the dialect of the country in which he lived.
"As I was tellin' ye," he said, "I allers loved fishin' an' knowed 't was the best
