Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-08-24
"'PossUM AND wATERMILIN."
The Mixture That Caused Jim jenkins
Untimely Death.

The Mixture That Caused Jim jenkins
Untimeiy Death.
"Brudder johnson, / hezn't seen Jim
Jenkins bout hyar fur sum time"
"An yo' amt gwine TO see him bout
byar for sum time longer yit, Uncle
Rastus"
"Yo don't tell me. Nuthin wrong,
hope, Brudder Johnson"
-No, sab. Jim's JUS dead, OATS all,
sab"
Jump, is sartinly sorry to hear dat.
What war 'chashun of Jim's removal,
Brudder Johnson
"Well, de doctur glib it out ez confu-
shun Of de stummick, sah."
"Confushun uf the stummick, Brudder
Johnson"
"Yas, sab. OATS what de doctur say.
An l wuz berry partickler to cognize
JUS what be say"
"Confushun uf de stummick, ell?
Well, dat beats me, Brudder Johnson
What wuz de 'cashun uf dis confushun?"
"'POssuIn an warermilin, sahy'
whats DAT yo' say, Brudder Johnson
Possum and waterInilinT
"Dat's what de doctur cided, Uncle
Rastus. 1t seems like he wuz uf de pin
ion dat 'possum and watermilin, tuken
tugedder, wuz tn much fur Jim's Stun
mick, sab"
"Uf course dey wuz, Brudder John
son. Oar amt no mistake about dat
'clushun, sab. An it duz seem like folks
nowadays is a-gittin so dat dey rushes
- - 10, I g. g d.
sum an watermilinP
"Yo' isn't a-runnin down 'possum an
watermilin, Is yo', Uncle RastusY"
LUX hyar, Brudder johnson, is
cullud or is whiteT'
"Cullud, sab"
"Well, den, did yo' ebber heah tell uf
any cullud pusson runnin down 'possum
On watermilin;'
mo, sab. Nebber, sah."
"An yo' amt likely tn, sab, ez long ez
cullud folks doan't lose dere sef respect,
sab"
81 doan't know dat understands yo'
den, Uncle Rastus."
Den I'll try tn splain, Brudder John
son. Oar amt no doubt in the wurl but
'clusively fur de Cullud folks, is DART"
mo, sab; no, sab Dat dar amt"
"Uf course cognizes de fac dat de
white folks eats bofe uf em, but dat is
jus annudder 'cashun uf dere a tramplin
On de purrogatives uf de cullud race
But, to pursume de subjec, dar's a time
fur dis, and dar's a time fur dat; an
OATS JUS whar Jim Jenkins los his
'membrance."
slows dat, Uncle Rastus?"
"Why, sab, pursumin to tempt de
wrath of de Lawd de way he did. When
de good Lawd Glib de cullud peoples
'possum an wateT1nilin he neber mag
ind dat dey'd be eatin tugedder.
No, sab, he nebber tended dat dey
shud be-"
"Why, Uncle Rastusl
"Brudder johnson, tell me dis, Is yo'
los all yur reasoning
mo, san, dat | isn't"
"Wel, den, 20 talks mighty like it,
Brudder johnson. When de Lawd made
de 'possum an sot it aside fur de cullud
man, an when he made de watermilin
and sot dat aside fur de cullud man he
specially fit de cullud mans stummick
fur dem blessins Of his. But he fit 'em
so dat one wuz tn be eaten dis time uf
de var an de udder wuz tn be eaten dat
time uf de var. An 50 it is, Brudder
johnson, dat when de cullud man fur
gifts tn Joy desc blessins uf de Lawd
one at time an in dere partickler sea-
son, den il is dat he rushes, ez say,
intu de berry face uf Providence an calls
down on him De righteous wrath uf
Gawd."
"Io' is a-talkin now, Uncle Rastus."
"Tes, sab, dat is. An glory be tn
Gawd, sab, is got de good book fur
my foundashun. Understan me, Brud-
der johnson, duzn't say dat yo1l find
desc berry words dar, but l duz say dis
dat de Lawd said unto de cullud man,
In de time uf 'possum eat 'possum, an
In de time Of watermilin eat watermilin.
and fear de Lawd dy Gawd.' So, sab.
when de cullud man furgits dat an
rushes de blessins uf de Lawd out uf
dere season den yo' kin LUX fur confu-
sion uf de stummick cherry time, Brud-
der Observation-Disclosures Star.