A coloured preacher took some, candidates for immersion down to a river in Louisiana. Seeing some alligators in the stream one of them objected. ' “Why, brother,” urged the pastor, “eau't you
trust the Lord? He took care of Jonah, didn’t he?” -• .. ; “Y-a-a-s,” admitted the darkey, ’tyut a whale's different. A whale’s got a
mem’ry, but if one o’ dem ’gators wus tell swwller dis nigger, lie’s jes’ go to sleep dar in U>« tun an* forgit all about it.” .. .. . ..
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLV, Issue 18, 3 May 1911, Page 51
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79Untitled New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLV, Issue 18, 3 May 1911, Page 51
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