Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 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 salbashnn and set him on fire.” Aunt Dinah—Uncle Pete, what did dey do wid dat nigger, Toothpick Ben, in de p’lioe co’t dis mo’n’n? Uncle Pete—De Judge sed he would exonerate him dis time. Aunt, Dinah —Yes, I s’peoted dat; but fur how many days? Uncle Zeke— ’Deed; Sophronia, I Pink de pore boy am gwine fast! Aunt Sophronia—Wh—wh—wbai’s be 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—Suffin’ ’bout de hebbenly hen-roosts, Zekiel? At a negro prayer meeting, one of the brethren earnestly prayed that they might -be preserved from what he called their “upsettin’ sins.” “Brudder,” said one of the elders, “yer bain’t ’zaotly got de hang ob dat ar word. Its besettin’—net upsettin’.” “Brudder,” replied the corrected, “es dat’s so, it’s so: bnt I wux prayin’ de Lawd ter sabe ns from de sin ob' Toxication, an' es dat,ain’t a upsettin’ sin, I dunno.” 1 Little dloy— “Pa, why does the world move?” Pa ( thinking of something else)—r “Because it finds it cheaper than to pay