One time they called a deacons' meeting at the East Fork Church. Uncle Versie Ledbetter was up in years, and he didn't go to many of the deacons' meetings no more because he thought the young folks, them about fifty and sixty, could take care of the church business.
But he got word they was fixing to spend some money, and he got Newgene, his grandson, to take him over to the church house in a mule and wagon for the deacons' meeting.
The deacons got in a big discussion about buying a chandelier for the church. A man said, "I move, sir, that we buy a chandelier for the church."
Another deacon said, "I second the motion." The moderator said, "Is there any discussion?"
Uncle Versie Ledbetter said, "Sir, I would like to speak. I want all of you to know that if we gonna buy a chandelier, there ain't nobody in our church got enough education that, when we order it from Sears and Roebuck, they could even spell it."
"Then if we ordered the chandelier, when it got here, there's nobody here in our church that knows how to play it."
"And what I'm concerned about is we don't need to spend this money on no chandelier as bad as we need lights in the church."
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