"Why, folks as doesn't understand things, but only likes to talk about 'em: parsons--at least, more nor half on 'em--ay, and these 'ere politicians too, for the matter o' that. There's some folks as dresses up in fine clothes, and there's some as dresses up in fine words: one sort wants to be looked at, and the other wants to be listened to. Doesn't it stand to sense that it's just the same? Bless your 'eart, it's all _show_! Why, there's lots o' men as goes huntin' about till they finds a bit o' summat as they think 'ud look well if they dressed it up in talk. 'Ah,' they say to themselves, 'that'll just do for me; that's what I'm goin' to _believe_; when it's got its Sunday clothes on it'll look like a regular lord.' Well, there's plenty o' that sort about; and you can allus tell 'em by the 'oller sound as they makes. And them's the folks as spoils the old Bible. "Not but what there's things in the Bible as is 'oller to begin wi'. But there's plenty that isn't, if these talkin' chaps 'ud only leave it alone. Now, here's a bit as I calls tip-top: 'When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers'" (here Snarley quoted several verses of the Eighth Psalm). "Now, when you gets hold on a bit like that, you don't want to go dressin' on it up. You just puts it in your pipe and smokes it, and then it does you good! _That's_ it! "There's was once a Salvation Army man as come and asked me if I accepted the Gospel. 'Yes, my lad,' I sez; 'I've accepted it--but only as a thing to _smoke_, not as a thing to go _bangin' about_. Put your drum in the cup-board, my lad,' I sez; 'and put the Gospel in your pipe, and you'll be a wiser man.' "As for all this 'ere argle-bargling about them big things, _there's nowt in it_, you take my word for that! The little things for argle-bargle, the big uns' for smokin', that's what _I_ sez! Put the big 'uns in your pipe, sir; put 'em in your pipe, and smoke 'em!" These last words were spoken in tones of great solemnity and repeated several times. "That's good advice, Snarley," I said; "but the writer you just quoted hadn't got a pipe to put 'em in." "Didn't need one," said Snarley; "there weren't so many talkin' men about in his time. Folks then were born right end up to begin wi', and didn't need to smoke 'emselves round.