The Way it was Done.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XVIII, Issue 1735, 18 September 1885, Page 3

The Way it was Done.

A colored preacher in Floriia thus held forth : " My brudering, de leiaelites went ov«r de Red Boa on the ice. ?hey got over ell sale ; and dat’s the reasoi why Moses lung de song 0! praise. In Ihe morning, when de eun was up, hot, PJarioh and de Gyptians come wid deir greit lumbering chariots of iron, Dey broke through de ice and all went to de bottom of desea."

" Stop dare ! ” exclaimed a hearer. “ I want to ask a question. I’ve nad g’ograpby, and Egypt’i a hot country. It’s underdo Tropics, it’s near de ’Quator, tud dere ain’t no ice dere. How could dey go over on de ice, an’ dere no ice dere ? ”

To this the preacher resptaded : " I’m glad you axed dat question. Now I can ’splain. That comes of reading G’ography instead of the Bible. My fathering, when de children of Israel go over de Red Sea, dat was a great, great while ago, before dere wai any G’ograpby, before iere was any Tropics, before dere wa» any ’Quator. Cat’s de reason dere was ice, my brudering.”