Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1872-04-09

LOT AND HIS wIFE-A NEW VERSION.


of conversation between two of ii
hands on the subject of religion.
"What do you know nuthin' TIA
bout 'ligion."
What do you know bout 'ligion
You don't know nuthin' tall bou
'ligion."
II know heap bout 1igion. Ain
L bin dun read the Bible ?"
"What you read in de Bible
lay you can't tell me nuthin' wha
you read in dc Bible ?"
"But I kin dough (though). Ireat
bout Morrow"
"What sort o Morrow - to.mor,
row ?"
mo, Go-AIorrow."
"Well, whar he 60, and what he so
fur ?"
"Shob, man he didn't 60 nowhar,
COS he was town.
Oar didn't 1 tell you you didn't
know nuthin' bout nuthin' ? You
read the Bible Hoccum (how Gomez
dc town name Morrow, and how de
town gwine GO anywhere ? Town amt
got no legs"
Man, you's born fool, sho." De
town named Co Morrow cos dey didn't
have no time to stay dar talkin' long
talk
"Debbil day didn't IF dcy stay
dar to.dey, why can't dey stay dar to-
morrow ? 'Splain me dat"
"Bnt dey all gone, and dc town too.
All done bun up"
"Ef derc amt no pepul, and derc
amt no town, how de town name
Morrow G'long, niger Didn't |
know you didn't know nuthin' tall
bout 1igion ? But (Sarcastically) tole
me some mo- what you read in dc
Bible
We'll, Morrow was a big town
bout mighty highs big as Washington
City-and de pepul what live dar was
dc means pepul in de whole worl.-
DEFY was dat mean dat do Lord he
couldn't bear EN-, and he made up his
min dat he gwine bun de town clear
up. But dar was one good man dar
member of de church, a P'sidin'
Elder-name Lot
"Yaas, I know'd him."
"Whar you know'd him ~
"On de canucll (cauaD. lie owned
a batto and dror' it himself"
"Hcist, man l talkin' sense now.
Den de Lord he came to Lot, ard be
say, Lot, I gwine bun dis town.
You and you wife git up and gather
your little alls, and put out o de
crack o day, coz l cer'n'y gwine bun
dis town and de pepul tomorrow
Den Lot he and his wife rize and
snatched up their little alls and trav-
eled soon in de mornin. And de
Lord he tux two lightud Qightwood)
knots and some shavin's, and he set
FIRE to dat ar town Nv Morrow, and
he bun it spong up, clear down to de
groun'."
"What come O. Lot?"
"He and he wife, dey went and dey
went and dey went, 'twell presently he
wife say, Lor, eff amt gone and lief
de meal sitter and rollin-pin, wish l
may die ? and she turn roun, and
and-shc dar now"
"What she doin' dar ~
"Nothn.'
"Mus be mon us lazy CONAN
mo, she amt. De Lord tu'n her
TO pillow of salt, coz she too 'quisi-
tive"
"Dar cv'ry body know bout sack
o salt; who ever hear bout pillow of
salt? But what come O. Lot p
"Lot, he wern't koerin' hell bout
no rollin' pin and no meal sitter, so he
keep straight long, though turning NV
he head neither to the right, neither
to the lcf."
".An' lef' the ole woman dar Pr
"Yaas.'
"Must keer'd mighty little for her
want to git married to sek'n wife, |
spec. But de fus' man como long
and want to git some salt to bake ash
cake, he gwinc bust piece out'n Lots
wife, aud 'stroy her; and'what do you
tink O. dat9 Call dat ligionY An
the ole man lef her? An you read
dat
Here pcremptory order from the
foreman to ego to work" broke short
the conversation.--LippincOtfs Maya
cine.
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