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Show Wot Selfish. , A nephew of Colonel Lanham, of Texas, tells the following story of a negro baptizing in Texas: An old negro preacher did the honors, and the candidate for baptism was a coal-black negro woman. The preacher led her far out into the stream, where she could be thoroughly immersed, and at the auspicious moment he cried in a loud voice: "Be stiddy, sister, be stiddy, and you'll come up whitah den snow." "Oh, parson," she exclaimed, "dat's askin' too much. A cream coluh'll do!" Mobile Register. |