ORIGIN. OF THE NEGRO

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1746, 21 January 1888, Page 3

ORIGIN. OF THE NEGRO

. « . — At tr a creniin^ ' f Ad.m, ruosa negrr legend, Sat:-t: Bei about imitating the wct\ and taking a qoa«-.ti-y of sand, sneo^ede' quite m m kin;: k man. But as everything tijfit Sntan touehf 8 becomes black, his mai was naturally of that color. Seeing tbi • Satan undertook to waßh him white m th river Jordan, bat the wster fijwed bick as toon as h<) approached It, and therf w»» nothing left but a very little water »t the bottom of the stream, whioh jm covered the bottom of the man's feet anr the paluos of his hands, which expluia tho fact that their hands and feet are not as dark as the rest of their bodies Furious at discovering that his attempt was m vain, Sutun struck the pooi creature a terrible blow upon the oos which flattened it oat for ever. The nnhappy man asked for mercy wherenpoi Satan, realising that his condition w& not his own fault, and feelirjg a oertaiamount of pity for him, passed bis han m a sort of oaress over the man's head bat the terrible heat of the hand seiv.r the purpose of a curling iron, " frizz ed " the hair so that It remained woolly evesince. -