Well, no, that was before Becky was born. I just eat a bowl of oatmeal, cost a dime. They give me my ticket, and just sign it, you see, and I paid for it, give it back, and I turn it in, 'cause I had an expense account.

And one day when we had a patrolman's meeting. "My," they said, "who is this nut that turned in something like that?" See? The head guy, you know, "Ten cents for a breakfast?" So that looks real cheap on the other fellows, you know. Some of them turned in a dollar, see; two dollars for dinner. And I turn in just exactly what it was.

Well, I said, "Well, now, there's no need of me turning in. What would I do if I just eat, ten cents?"

Mr. Fields, which was the assistant superintendent, he said, "Billy, turn in a dollar, anyhow, at least." Said, "That's what the rest of them is doing." Said, "You got to keep that together."

"Well," I said, "I never eat but just a bowl of oatmeal, and that's what I charge for."
Said, "Oh, don't, never do that."

Well, then I thought, "What will I do with it?" Then I charged fifty cents for breakfast. Then I take forty cents of it, if I want to spend anything, give it to some kids on the street; some kids, you know, that looked like they need a little old sandwich, sandwich, too. Right, that was the company, itself, talking to me like that. That was a man out of the company.
So, I thought, "Maybe I did something wrong."

So here not long ago, with a patrolman... Now they patrol by helicopters, you see. So he came by and he stopped. He said, "Say, Brother Branham," said, "this tree is growing."
I said, "Yeah." I said, "Kids play under that out there."
He said, "Can we top it?"
I said, "Yeah, but don't cut it down. See?"
He said, "Well, we'd like to cut it. We'll pay you for it."

I said, "No. No. Don't want you to cut it." Well, I know the laws of right-of-way, too, you know, 'cause I was on it seven years. I said, "No." I said, "Don't want it cut, but you can top it." I said, "I keep it topped, but," I said, "you can. You can top it if you want to." I said, "I, Brother Woods and I, are fixing to top it. We top all these others along here." And I said, "But we'd like to keep that there on account of the kids, Joe and them, you know, little fellows playing under that tree."

I went away on a trip. When I come back, she was sawed down and moved out. Oh, what a suit that would have been on the company, you see, for cutting that tree, you see. And so I thought, "Now," I said, "Lord, I'm not going to even mention that." See? Whether if there is anything on that, sometimes turning in, 'only eating a dime's worth, and have to turn in fifty cents.'" See? I said, "If there is something on that, let that make it up, see, that I put that in, you see." And I quit dreaming about being in Public Service Company then, see, 'cause it must have been something back in there.
We have to watch what we do. We got to meet it someday.

William Branham, sermon «Come, Follow Me»
https://en.branham.ru/sermons/63-0601