The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-03-21
Lot and III, Wire-A Now V.r.Ion

As l approached a pond few days
ago, where some negroes were cutting
some ice, I ohanoed to2hear the conclu-
sion OF conversation between two of
the hands on the subject of religion.
"What you know 'bout Hgion2 You
don't know nothin' tall bout 'ligion."
II know heap bout 'ligion; amt
bin done read do Bibles',
"What you read in de Bible? I Low
you carn't tell me nuthin' what you read
in de Bible"
;, "Ba. I kin. dough (though). I read
bout Moro"
"What sort O. Acknowledgement"
ono, Go-Morrow."
"Well, whar he go, and what he go
''shoh, mani he didn' go nowhar,
COZ he was town."
''Dar! didn' I tell you didn' know
nuthin' bout nuthin'? You read the
Biblel Hocoum (how GOMEZ de town
name Moro, and how de town gwine
go anywhar? Town amt got no legs"
"Msn, you's born fool. sho'. Do
town named Go-Morrow, but dey call it
Moro COZ dey didn' have no time to
stay dar talkin' long talk
''Dsbbil dey didn't Ef dey stay dar
to-day, why can't they stay dar to NOR
row? 'Splain nee dat"
But dey all gone. and de town, too.
All done bun up"
'Ef dero amt no pepuI, and dere
amt no town, how de town name Nor
row? G'loug, Niger! Didn't I know
you didn't know nuthin' tall bout
'iigion? But (sarcastically) tole me
some mo- what yua sesG in de Bible.''
'Well, Morrow was big town-'bout
mighty highs big as Washington City
and de pepul wat live dar was de
meanes' pepul in de whole world. Dey
WAS dat mean dat de Lord he couldn't
abear EN-, and he make up his min dat
be gwine bun de town clean up. But
dxr WAS ono good man dar-member Nv
do church. p'sidin elder-name Lot"
'Yaas. know'd him."
"Whar you know'd him?"
"On de cannell (canaD. He owned
batto. and dror it hisse'f."
"Heist. mani I talkin sense, now.
Den de Lord he came to Lot, and he
say, Lot, 1 gwine bun dis town. You
and you wife git up and get!,er you little
all. and put out fo do crack O. day, coz
[ cert'n'y gwine bun dis town and de
pepul. tomorrow. Den Lot he and his
wife riz, and snatohed up their little alls
and travelled soon in the mornin'. And
the Lord he TUX two light'nd (lightwood)
knots and some shavin's, and he set Gre
to dat ar town Nv Morrow, and he bun
it spang up. clear down to do groun'."
"What come o. Lot?"
HE and he wife, dey went, and dcy
won't, and dey went, tell pros 'ly he wife
say, Lori ef aiu't gone and lef dc
meal sitter and de rollin' pin, I wsht I
may die! and she turn roun' to 20 fetch
EN-, and she turn roun', and-and-she
dar nowl"
''What she doin' dar?"
'Nuthin'."
"Must be monsu US lazy CONAN"
mo, she ain't. De Lord ho tu'n her
to pillow Nv salt, COZ she too 'guisitive. {"
"Darl ey'rybody know bout sack G.
salt; who ever hear bout pillow O. salt?
But what come O. Lot?"
''Lot, he weren't kecrin' tall boot no
roliin'-pin and no meal-sifter, 40 he KEEP
straight long, 'thout turning Nv he bead
Mother to the right. neither to the lef'. :"
''And lsf do OLE 'ooman dar?"
"Yaas."
"In the middle Of de road?"
"Yaas."
"Mnst keer'd mighty little fur hor-
want to git married to seck'n wife, I
speo'. But de fus' inan come long and
want to git some salt to bake ashcakc, he
gwine bust piece out'n Lots wife, and
'stroy her; and what you think O. dat?
Call dat 'ligion? And de ole man lef'
her? and you read dat"
Here peremptory order from the
foreman to Ego to work" broke short the
conversation.