Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 May 1883 — A Little Awkward. [ARTICLE]

A Little Awkward.

Parson Whangdoodle Baxter noticed at the last prayer-meeting in the Austin Blue Light Tabernacle that Gabe Snodgrass, who was wording his lips like the rollers of a patent clothes* wringer as he read his Bible, actually hadtbe book upside down. “Why, Gabe, you am reading de' sacred book upside down. Now am dat possible?” “Da| mu so for a fac’, parson. Yon see, parson, dis heah Bible blongs to my wife, and I don’t know how to handle hit yet. *Ef I jess nad my own Bible heah wid me, dat I has done got de hang ob, I nebber would hab made dat mistake.— Texas Siftings,"