Cousin Billy Clyde was having problems. He kept holding his stomach and moaning.
I figured he had eaten a bunch of green apples again, since he often did that, but Dooley thought it was psychological. It seems that Dooley had been to a moving-picture show where one of the characters had psychological problems.
After he saw that movie he had been looking at all of us strangely and asking an awful lot of questions. We got Billy Clyde to lie down on the front porch.
We laid a straight back chair down so he could rest his head and shoulders on it. Do any of you remember how to lay a chair down like that to make a bed out of it?
“I am going to ask you a few questions now,” he told Billy Clyde, “and you just answer with the first thing that comes to your mind.” Dooley started with the word beautiful. He thought Billy Clyde might be having girlfriend problems, or perhaps the lack of one problems...
Billy Clyde said “peanut butter and crackers.” Dooley frowned at him and wrote the answer down.
The next word he gave him was “school” because Dooley knew he always had some problems there. He answered “biscuit and jelly” and Dooley frowned a little harder at him, but wrote the answer down.
Dooley said the word “girls.” He had started this determined that this was the problem and he had set out to prove it..
Billy Clyde said “cornbread and beans.” Dooley frowned some more and wrote the answer down.
After more probing questions with similar answers, Dooley was sure that he had the answer.
“You are in love with that little blond-haired girl at school, and she won't have nothing to do with you,” he pronounced. “That ain't it at all,” insisted Billy Clyde. “Our cow has been eating wild onions and giving onion milk. I can't stand onion milk, and I couldn't eat all the breakfast I wanted this morning.”
Do any of our readers remember when the cows used to eat wild onions and give onion milk in the spring? I saw some onions in the yard the other day and it made me wonder if anybody’s milk cow was giving onion milk.
Many people are spiritually sick because they refuse food from God. They often confound the problem by stuffing themselves with the devil’s junk.
Separation from God is not a psychological problem in spite of the effort of many to convince us of that. People can never be fully satisfied without Jesus. There will always be an empty feeling deep inside the soul
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