"Somebody told me Sara fired a shotgun in the tree over his head and the leaves went scattering all around him like a gang of crows in a cornfield."
Hank laughed. "That'd be something to see. And I heard that told on him before too. To tell the truth, I don't know for a fact which happened. But they say he got in that old trap of a Corvair of his'n and tore outta the driveway and never did show his face there again. He always drove like a nut. You know I was telling you a minute ago bout that hearse he had when he was preaching on the highway. Well he kept driving that thing around a year or two I guess till one night he ran off the shoulder of the road and flipped it over the bank of Cooley's Creek over on 229. Wiley Church was driving by a little later and said he heard a loud rumbling noise and slowed down and pulled off the road to see what it was. Nelson didn't know he still had that loudspeaker on and he was cussing up a storm. Wiley couldn't see him for all the bushes and the dark and all and didn't know anything about Nelson and his loudspeaker. Wiley had this little timid voice but it'd break sometimes and go from high to low in the middle of a sentence. So he called out, "Is anybody DOWN THERE?" Nellie blew up and bellowed through his bullhorn: "Anybody my ass. Shit on you boy. Get me outta this hole or I'll broadcast your sins all over this county." It boomed out so loud Wiley took off for his car as hard as he could go and Nelson had to sit down there another forty-five minutes before somebody else came by and got him out of the creek."