At a colored camp meeting in Louisiana the following sermon was delivered
by a very black old darky, wearing huge spectacles:
“Brethren and Sistren, de preachifying dis mawnin’ will be from de text
on de 10 virgins. De bridegroom war a-coming and ’spectin’ dem 10 virgins
to be ready wif dere lamps all trimmed and a-burnin’, but, lo, when he
was come he done foun’ dat on’y five of dem virgins war ready; yessir,
five was trimmed and five was ontrimmed; five was wise and five was
onwise; five was ready and five was onready; five was male and five was
female.”—Harper’s Magazine.
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