Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 September 1881 — That Little Hatchet. [ARTICLE]

That Little Hatchet.

“ Come heah, George Washington, you black ape,” exclaimed Rev. Aminidab Bledsoe, of the Austin Blue Light Colored Tabernacle, to a Sunday-school scholar who had just removed a big wad of something or other from his mouth. The boy’s trembling limbs carried him into the immediate presence of the irate sheperd. “ Yer was chewin’ terbacker in de house ob de Lawd.” “I owns right up, parson. I was chawin’ terbacker, but I won’t do so no moah.” “George Washington, chawin’ terbacker am bad enough, Lawd knows; but when yer has got so shameless yer don’t eben try ter he out ob it, hit am time ter take ver in hand, so you won’t grow up and disgrace de fodder of his country. Lean ober dat knee, George. ” And for about ten minutes people living several blocks off imagined their neighbors were preparing tough beefsteak for dinner with an ax.