My Neighbours
"I ate rats to provide a Beybile to the Respected," the woman trembled. "I—"
"You are pathetic," Towy said. "Hie and get your tokens and have that poor one will I because of my pity for you."
The woman told her deeds in Heaven's Record Office, and she was given four white tablets on which her deeds were inscribed; and the rat tablet Towy took from her. "Faith and hope are tidy heifers," he said, "but a stallion is charity. Priceless Beybile I give you, sinner."
As he moved away Towy cried in the manner of one selling by auction: "This is the beloved Beybile of Jesus. This is the book of hymns—old and new notations. Hymns harvest, communion, funerals, Sunday schools, and hymns for children bach are here. Treasures bulky for certain."
For some he received three tablets each, for some five tablets each, and for some
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