Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1881 — Endin’ Up De World. [ARTICLE]

Endin’ Up De World.

“Dem Africans up dar’ in Kaintuck has got me all broke up,” said the old man as he stood up his brush on end and leaned up against the rear end of the market. “What’s the trouble?” “’Boutde endin' up ob de world, sail. Some ob dem said de gran’ splash would take place las’ week, au’ some ob ’em say it has been put off till the twentieth, an’ some ob ’em am gbin’ to prepare to go up nex’ Saturday. When I leftde house dis mawnin I tole de ole woman I war gwine to ax some white man all ’bout it an’ git right down 'to de dead level. Now, sab, what am de cold sacks in de case? Am de world gwine to kerplash dis summer or not?” “Of course not!” “Dat’s ’zactly what I tole ’em up dar.- She can’t do it. She can’t afford it. Why, sir, if de world should bust up what wortld become ob all de folks?” ? “That’s true.” “Yes, sab, an’ whar’ would de pieces go to? Why. dar wouldn’t be room fur de splinters, let alone, de big chunk-. De ole woman may sot up all night waitin’ to h’ar de fust crash, but she’ll be disappinted. You haven’t smelt brimstun, have ye?” “No.” “Nor I, either; but dem Kaintuck lunatics am sniflln’ ah’ snilllu’ an’ cryin’ out dat de world am all on flab. How long, sah, do you ’spect dis world will stan’?” “About ten million years more.” “Houest?’/_ .A “Yes.” “Den I guess I’ll walk up home an’ tell de ole woman. One reason why she feels so bad is bekase she was gwine down to Toronto dis Fall to see her sister, an’ sho thought de endin’ up ob de world might stop de railroad kyars from runnin’. Ten millyun y’ars mo’! Why, she’ll have time to finish dat log cabin bedquilt an’- visit her sister, too!”