"Will you sing, Uncle?" asked Tommy. “Certainly," Uncle replied, “but why do you want me to sing just now?” “Because we are playing shipwrecks and we want a foghorn,” said; Tommy. I , The negro preacher had successfully concealed the fact that he had served a term in prison, but years of upright living liad not destroyed his fear of exposure. One Sunday, on rising to begin lus sermon, his heart sank on seeing ir one of the front pews a former cell mate. Quick thinking was necessary He fixed his eye on the stranger and delivered himself slowly and impress-1 ively: ".Ah takes mah text dis mo’nin' from de sixty.fig chapter an’ de fc’ hundre’th verse ob de Gospel, which, say: ’Dem as secs me an’ knows me an J says nothin', dem will Ah reward later',' I
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 January 1941, Page 2
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138Page 2 Advertisements Column 2 Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 January 1941, Page 2
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