The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1873-05-08
Lot and His KIr..-I Ner rersi0n


As 1 approached a pond, a few DAYS
ago where some negroes were cutting
Ice, l chanced to hear the conclusion
OF conversation between two Of tie
hands on the sdtject ofTeligion.
w E1t 10 you know bout 'Iigien >
You don't know nuthiu' tall bout
'iigiOu"
Il know heap bout ligion; amt l
bin done read de bible ~
"What you read in de bible? I saw
you can't tell me nuthiu' what You
read in de bi0.e."
"But I kin dough thought Tread
'OOUJ Moro"
What sort o. Morrow -to-mor-
row22''
''No, Go Moro"
Wall, whar he go, aud what he go
''ShOh, mani He didn't 20 no
Whar, 'cOZ he was = town."
"DaTi didn't ! tell YOU YOU didn't
know uuthin' bout nuthin' You
read de bibleI HOccum (how comel
de town name MORO, and how de
town gwine 60 anywhar? Town amt
got no legs"
DCcJAA NGg Nluu I. III uty stay
dar to-day, why can't dey stay dar to-
morrow? 'Splain me dat"
But dey all gone, and de town too
All done bun up"
'Et dere amt no pepul, and dere
amt 10 town, how de town name
MORO? G'lOng, niger! Didn't I
know you didn't know nuthin' tail
bout 'ligiOn? But" (sareastieallyl
'.tole me some mo- what you read in
de bible"
"Well, Moro was a big town
bout mighty nigh's big as Washin'-
ton City. And de pspul dat live dar
was de meanes' pspul in de whole
wOTP. Dey was so mean dat de Lord
he couldn't abear 'em, and he make
I'D his min dat he gwine bum de
town up. But dar was 6ne good man
dar-member nv de church, a p'sidin'
elder-name Lot"
"Gaas, 1 knOw'd him."
''Whar you knows him."
"On de canneil (canal.J He owned
a battO, and drOr'd it hisself."
"Heist, man / talkin' sense now.
Den de Lord he come to Lot, and he
say, Lot, Igwine bun dis town. You
and your wife git up and gether your
little alls, and put cut TO- de 'ack o.
day, 'coz l cerJ'n'y gwine BUN dis
town and de pepul Tomorrow Den
Lot he and his wife riz, and sIatched
up their ails, and travelled soon in &c
mOrniu'. And de Lord he TUX Two
light'ud light wood knots and some
shavins, and he set fire to dat town of
Moro, and he bum it spang ur,
clear down % de gTOun."
"What 'Cume Of Lot ?n
''he and he wife dey we It, and dey
went, and dey went; we'll presin'ly
he wife say, Lot ef amt gone and
leF De meal sitter and de rOllin'-pin,
/ wish 1 my die - And she turn
roun'. and -and-she dar now ~
''What she dOin' dar?1
"Nuthin."
"Must D. mOns'us lazy 'OOman."
"NO SHE ain't. De Lord he tu'n
her to piller NV salt, COZ she too 'quis-
tive"
"Dar ev'ry body know bout sack
o salt; who ever heard bout piller NV
salt But what comes o. I!Ot2i
LOT, he weren't keeriu' nuthin'
tall bout no rOllin'-pin and no meal
sitter; so he KEEP straight long with
out tuTnin' nv he head, neither to
the right, neither to the lef."
And lCf de ole 'OOman darn
"Yaas."
'In de middle OF de road -
'Yaas."
"Must keer'd mighty little fur her
want to get married TO seck'n wife, l
specJ But de fus' man came long,
aud want to git some salt to bake ASH
cake, he gwine bust piece Out'n Lots
wife and 'strOy her; and what you
think o. dat ? Call dat 'ligiOn? And
de ole man done lef her ? And you
read dat"
Here a peremptory Or'ler from the
foreman to ''gO TO work" broke short
the cOnversatiOn.-LiPPiRcOtPs Nag
dziHc.