Show l I I I I I Uncle Rufus Washington hington Post Near my home o over er in Virginia says the business woman there Is a small Baptist church where ev every r Sun Sunda Sunday da day a negro called Uncle Rufus preaches I have hac always that Uncle Rufus know how to read though he wont confers It I 1 am sure his eldest daughter selects his texts for him but I dare tell teU him I II think so lie He came to see me the last time I was at home and I promised to toI send him a new Bible from Washing Washington ton His la last t name Is Robertson or Robinson and when I WaS a asking king how I should ad address dress tile the package I 1 inquired how he spelled his name Uncle Rufus to be caught b by any such trans transparent transparent parent trick as that U Well YeU Miss Bett Betty he said I 1 aint to tell teU you ou bow I spoils spells it You jes spell It the way you likes Uke best I certain certainly 1 aint going to dictate to a alady lady r I went once to hear Uncle Rufus preach a funeral sermon says the same woman woman uIt Jr was a flowery and eloquent address garnished with many manyI quotations Uncle Rufus referred I touchingly to the el taking off orr or of the deceased and to the ways of Providence which are beyond mortal comprehension U my frIends said he what the poet says Is a fact God moves itt In Ina itta a mischievous wa way his wonders to re reI reform form |