"I'm. beginning to think we read different Bibles, Budge; but
let's hear YOUR version."
"Huh?"
"Tell ME about Noah, if you know so much about him."
"I will, if you want me to. Once the Lord felt so uncomfortable
cos folks was bad that he was sorry he ever made anybody, or any
world or anything. But Noah wasn't bad--the Lord liked him first-
rate, so he told Noah to build a big ark, and then the Lord would
make it rain so everybody should be drownded but Noah an' his
little boys an' girls, an' doggies an' pussies an' mama-cows an'
little-boy-cows an' little-girl-cows an' hosses an' everything--
they'd go in the ark an' wouldn't get wetted a bit, when it
rained. An' Noah took lots of things to eat in the ark--cookies,
an' milk, an' oatmeal, an' strawberries, an' porgies, an'--oh,
yes; an' plum-puddin's an' pumpkin-pies. But Noah didn't want
everybody to get drownded, so he talked to folks an' said, 'It's
goin' to rain AWFUL pretty soon; you'd better be good, an' then
the Lord'll let you come into my ark.' An' they jus' said, 'Oh, if
it rains we'll go in the house till it stops;' an' other folks
said, 'WE ain't afraid of rain--we've got an umbrella.' An' some
more said, they wasn't goin' to be afraid of just a rain. But it
DID rain though, an' folks went in their houses, an' the water
came in, an' they went up-stairs, an' the water came up there, an'
they got on the tops of the houses, an' up in big trees, an' up in
mountains, an' the water went after 'em everywhere an' drownded
everybody, only just except Noah and the people in the ark.
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