Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1895 — “Get Yer Own Kerosene." [ARTICLE]

“Get Yer Own Kerosene."

Mrs. G. «was much Interested in a mission Sunday school in one of our large cities, says the Evangelist, and spent an hour or two every Sunday afternoon with a class of little girls, poor street waifs that had been gathered in. Upon one occasion, when the last lesson had been about the ten virgins, live of whom were wise and five foolish, the teacher asked, as was her custdfu, who in the class could tell anything about the lesson of the previous Sunday. One little girl, who hud never been in a Sunday school in her life until the week before, was on her feet in an Instant, and said, “Please?, ma’am, I ken. It was a weddin’, and there was ten on ’em.” And then the child stood, a touching little creature, with her pinched figure and povertystricken dress, telling in her street dialect the whole story, no point of which she lost. Pathetic as it was, it was irresistibly funny when she closed by saying: “And them as hasn’t got no oil in their lamps says to them as has to give ’em some; and them as has got oil in their lamps says to them as hasn't, ‘Be off wld yez, and go to the grocery and get yer own kerosene!’ ”