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Show Sister Ca'line's Versatility. Speaking of epitaphs reminds me of funerals, and of one in particular, the funeral of an old-fashioned mammy, to attend which a Washington woman traveled down into the "valley country" coun-try" of Virginia. The clergyman was black as his coat, but he delivered his eulogistic address with fervor, and with earnestness, for the dead -woman deserved de-served "all the good things which may be said of any,. good-hearted woman, black or white. He closed his eyes and described her welcome into heaven: "I kin see her," said he, "I kin see her, an' the gates flies open when she comes near. Sister Martha Johnson, Sister Mary Dabnp-a whole crowd of frien's gone before, crowds to meet her. They puts on her a white robe, and a gole crown. They rejoices greatly. They they leads Sister Ca'line to the willows. Sister Ca'line jes reaches up, takes down her ha'p, puts in her mouth and begins to play it. An' she's stand-in' stand-in' by the th'one now, that ha'p in her mouth playin in an' playin' and sing-in', sing-in', 'Hallelujah' with all her might." |
