Me and Bethel

Well like I said me and Bethel had three kids together, a girl (Doreen) and two boys (Bill and Jack.)
Doreen married a nair-do-well and lives over at Golds Creek. Bill and Jack both live out west. Doreen comes home once or twice a year even though it's only fifty miles to where she lives. And the boys ain't been home in several years. But I reckon that's all right.
Now I don't wish for much but if I could have one wish it would be to be standing right beside my Bethel, holding the hymn book, singing Blessed Assurance, in the Harper Lake Baptist Church. That's all I want to say today.

Note from Hollis:
Uncle Harvey Lee gets a little despondent when he talks about Aunt Bethel. He is walking down by the lake where he always goes when he has to think things out.
Now I am reading: Tinkers by Paul Harding.