The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1922-04-13
DUST FROM THE WEST WIND


and his conscience easy. He was
splitting excellently and accurately
that morning; and by looking closely
one could see thru his deep stubby
beard and discover smile of salts
faction that seemed TO feel at home.
Smiles were not common with Tom
Alec, and in this smile there was
something Of far away melancholy.
Mrs. Sudie Dammett, who was
colored, forty and weighted two hun
dred and twenty-five pounds came up
the steps Of the platform and spoke
TO Mr.. Johnson.
Good mawnin', Marse Alec. You
all sholy is feelin' good, a-settin'
out heah a chawin' an spittin, an
a smilin' Has youall found bee
tree ?"
"Howdy, Sudie. Nav, hain't
found no bee tree; an ! amt feelin'
as good as ] ort To be, for we had a
death at our house yistiddy"
"Sho huff? Who wuz it, Marse
Alec? ?"
"Op Rock got choked to death on
a bone. He was next to the best
dog ] had, an ] shore hated to give
him up. But we're in the hands of
higher power an hat TO put up
with everything tat comes along.
We can't hep ourselves"
Oats de trufe. Marse Alec, dat's
de trufe, we can't do a thing. But
or Rocks gone to res. We knows
dat"
"Ies. an while ago ! heard the
school.teacher readin' in the paper
about William J. Bryan a maxim
new book about them heather per.
fessors. He's done ruint 'em. He's
run 'em ragged, an then some. He
says the las doggoned one ov ems
a gon straight to Hell, an that
makes me feel lots better about or
Rock, cause he wuz jest a dog an
didn't know nothin' an he can't 90
to Hell an git into bad company"
wy, Marse Alec. amt dat Brine
Man de one what starts all de sly
cones an dry weathah? Ise heahed
a heap about him"
Yes. hes the one. An he says
that religion is the foundation of all
morality. ] don't know what moral
ity is, but jest as long as it amt pro-
hibition it suits me, for it suits
Bryan an the professors don't like
IT,"
"You sho does know sump'n bout
politics, Marse Alec. Ise bettah
woman evan time I heahs youall talk.
! sho is"
AN Bryan says that all them peo-
pie, what believes in that woman,
don't believe in no God nor no Devil,
nor nothin'' O, she's got a plumb
poorly sounds jest like sump'n
outn book, but she can't fool me.
They amt none o. them eiiicated
folks no better than they ort to be.
If she was to come a foolin' around
me, my wife 'ud scratch her eyes
out in a minnit, an pull ever hair
outn her head"
"Whut woman is youall a talkin'
about ?"
"Her names Envy Looshun. |
don't know where she come from. but
she amt respectable. She makes
them professors believe that they
amt no Devil What dye think O.
that? No God. an no Devil. an no
He'll We could git along all right
'ithout God But if they amt no
Hell, what's a goin' TO be done with
the people that we don't like? I'd
like 10 know"
dat woman ort to be on de rock
pile dis minnit"
"Never mind. Sudie, Bryan's got
il all fixed, an he can make so much
noise that all them ejjicated people'll
jest wilt right down an peter out in
no time. They'll feel cheap when he's
elected President on a He'll and Dam
nation ticket. He's bound to win on
that, for he's tried everything else,
an they say he's a gainin' ground
ever day"
Use a gwine 10 Vote fur i'm, n if
he's elected or dat ticket, what he'll
do FIR dat nasty, sinking hussy1l be
n plenty. Isa a cullud woman, but
hain't got no mo- use fo' dressed up
white trash dan you is"
And Sudie Dammett turned up her
virtuous black nose and walked into
the store. Tom Alec johnson looked
after her with approval and said,
That niger shore has got sense.
she ort TO been in the Legislaycher
Alison Baker