News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-05-11
INCIDENT OF THE NEW DELUGE.
How Some Wicked Boys Disturbed
Brother Jones and Spoiled Aunt
Sukey's Hoe-cake.

Sukey's Hoe-cake.
"How does you all feel in yer bones
How does you gashuate?" asked Aunt
Sukey, as she turned the fragrant hoe
cakes she was baking for the floating
population of her own people that the
flood had brought to her doors.
"Passumly! Passumly!" answered
Uncle Goliah, turning broad back with
very little on it to the bright fat-wood
fire; "Ise nifty dry, Aunt Sukey!"
"Dry, ole man" chuckled his hostess;
''well, you had a-plenty wattah in de
company, yahl yah! I spect you're up
ter yer ole tricks, Gil! Yer amt done
got ligion like I hev p
"Hes yer got 'ligion, nanny ?" asked
little Pete, the youngest pickaniny. 81
ANTS slice 'ligion, too, nanny"
'You go long," said Aunt Sukey,
fetching him vigorous slap on one side
of his woolly head. 'You tink 'ligion
like wattahmellyon, maybel Yes, brud-
der, I done got 'ligion, and now Use
not afeard of enything. Use different
woman, 1 Isl
'''Dem golden slippers Use gwine to wear,
La de dab, lah de dab
Dem angel songs Use gwine to hear,
La de dab, lab de dab =
81 disyemembah de words perzactly,
but OATS de chune."
There was a chorus of sstank de
Lawd," amid which Aunt Sukey bowed
her turbaned head over the hot Goals
and chopped" the hoe cakes again, at
the same time that she conveyed live
coal into the little squat black pipe in
her mouth on which she drew v1gor-
ously.
81 declar to grachious when I see
you comm sailin' down de bayou in
de rush of de wattahs, 1 sed it's de ak
oh de Lawd OATS comm dis berry night;
ct does seem as if yer was ruzed from de
dead.
The company that was hung up to dry
in various attitudes around the little
cabin, groaned louder at this, and rolled
the whites of their eyes toward the hoe
cakes.
'It wuz heartrenderin' to hear de
cries OBJ de mules" said old Uncle Co.
liah. "Dey dy like chillun, and dey's
with heap mo-. I done lost my ole
mule what wuz in de Mexican wah.
You tink I gets I penshyun fur her ?" he
asked, anxiously.
sob course, eff you pay rite smart
lawyah to reproach de government,
properly you gifts penshyun fur any
ting. Yahl yah! Money1l shove dat
mule froo," said one of the party. swat
you links, Uncle 'Siah ?'
81 dunno dunno ~ answered the
old man in a disconsolate tone. else
done wild mules and tings yearthly Ise
had my tree warnin's. One was when
I done fell asleep on de Silver Greek
sho' and forgot to shet my mouf, and a
alligator crawled down my froat and
most choked me de second was when
was a-borryin' one of de preacher
chickens and fell off de roost back over
heels and dis yer flood is de last. ]
neber gifts ober dis feels it in my
bones !"
"Sho," said Aunt Sukey, show you
do perambulate, ole man [ shan't be-
lieve in no warnin's till I see de chaw.
riot of Ishnael and de hossmen derof.
Oh, de good Lawd hab mercy on us
What's dat ?"
1t was wet stone that some wicked
boys on the roof had sent kissing down
into the hot fire.
"It's annuder warnin' |" said Uncle
'Siah with deep groan.
"Its waz black cat and it looked like
dis" said Pete twisting his face and
crawling close to his nanny.
"Will Brudder Jones lead us in
prar ?" asked Aunt Sukey ode hoe
cakes can wait, 1 reckon p
The little company got down on theil
knees. Some were too wet, some toe
dry-all were hungry, and the hoe
cakes sent out mighty fragrance, ano
amid perfect label of groans Brothe,
Jones began
"Lar- a-mitey, we has experienced
anuder deluge in de wilderness, and now
amt defraid of no wealthy power comm
to harm US uns we kin look de lyins
in de face in de den of Daniels, or shake
hans wild de fiery chilluns in de tree
furnaces /; we haz not bin 'fraid to lib,
and we re not 'fraid to die"-
But at that moment terrific explo
sion occurred that shook the old cabin
to its foundation, followed by such an
awful silence that the wicked boys who
had dropped gunpowder down the
chimney ran off ia hurry. After q
little, one head, and then another came
in sight, and "You dere p "You's
alibe ?" sounded from among them, and
finally Aunt Sukey crawled out, and
looking wistfully at the scraps of hoe.
cake succeed on the walls, said,
piously:
sits all rite, chilluns; tank de Lawd
de ole debiI cawn't go any furder dan
de length OBJ his chain. IN. QUAD.
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