THE WISE SAINT(A FABLE FOR ANYBODY)BY HERMAN DA COSTAPICTURE BY W. T. BENDA
(A FABLE FOR ANYBODY)
BY HERMAN DA COSTA
PICTURE BY W. T. BENDA
The Devil and St. Peter
DEdebble see St. Peter sneak into heaben’s gate;He holler: “What’s yo’ hurry? Wait dar, Peter! Wait!”De saint pull in de latch-string, an’ holler: “Now, you go!I’ll sic de houn’ dawg on you de fustest t’ing you know.”“I speaks you like a ge’man,” de debble up an’ say,“And yere you shets me out, sah! Fer shame! to ack dat way!”“Don’ argify,” say Peter. “You leads fo’ks into sin.Ain’t shettin’ you out, nohow; I’s shettin’ mahse’f in.”
DEdebble see St. Peter sneak into heaben’s gate;He holler: “What’s yo’ hurry? Wait dar, Peter! Wait!”De saint pull in de latch-string, an’ holler: “Now, you go!I’ll sic de houn’ dawg on you de fustest t’ing you know.”“I speaks you like a ge’man,” de debble up an’ say,“And yere you shets me out, sah! Fer shame! to ack dat way!”“Don’ argify,” say Peter. “You leads fo’ks into sin.Ain’t shettin’ you out, nohow; I’s shettin’ mahse’f in.”
DEdebble see St. Peter sneak into heaben’s gate;He holler: “What’s yo’ hurry? Wait dar, Peter! Wait!”
DEdebble see St. Peter sneak into heaben’s gate;
He holler: “What’s yo’ hurry? Wait dar, Peter! Wait!”
De saint pull in de latch-string, an’ holler: “Now, you go!I’ll sic de houn’ dawg on you de fustest t’ing you know.”
De saint pull in de latch-string, an’ holler: “Now, you go!
I’ll sic de houn’ dawg on you de fustest t’ing you know.”
“I speaks you like a ge’man,” de debble up an’ say,“And yere you shets me out, sah! Fer shame! to ack dat way!”
“I speaks you like a ge’man,” de debble up an’ say,
“And yere you shets me out, sah! Fer shame! to ack dat way!”
“Don’ argify,” say Peter. “You leads fo’ks into sin.Ain’t shettin’ you out, nohow; I’s shettin’ mahse’f in.”
“Don’ argify,” say Peter. “You leads fo’ks into sin.
Ain’t shettin’ you out, nohow; I’s shettin’ mahse’f in.”