Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1886 — Sayings and Doings. [ARTICLE]

Sayings and Doings.

“The darky’s hour is just before day,” as Sambo remarked when he started out from his “Ole Kentucky Home” to find a chicken for breakfast. One colored preacher in the South prayed with great earnestness upon the revival of a well-known brother in the field. “O, Lord, ’noint dis yer dear brudder wid de kerosene ile ob salbashun and set him on fire.” Aunt Dinah— Uncle Pete, what did dev do wid dat nigger, Toothpick Ben, in de p’lice co’t dis mo’n’n? Uncle Pete—De Judge sed he would exonerate him dis time. Aunt Dinah—Yes, I s’pected dat; but fur how many days? Uncle Zeke —’Deed; Sophronia, I t’ink de pore boy am gwine fast! Aunt Sophronia—Wh—wh—what’s he talkin’ ’bout, Zekiel? Uncle Zeke—He’s a sayin’, —he’s a sayin’ Sophronia, dat de little whitewashed angels am a floatin’ by. Aunt Sophronia—Nuffin’ ’bout do hebbenly hen-roosts, Zekiel?