And She Kept on Smoking
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“Aunt Chloe, do you think you are a Christian?” asked a preacher of an old negro woman who was smoking a pipe.
“Yes, brudder, I ’spects I is.”
“Do you believe in the Bible?”
“Yes, brudder.”
“Do you know there is a passage in the Scripture that declares that nothing unclean shall inherit the Kingdom of Heaven?”
“Yes, I’se heard of it.”
“Well, you smoke, and there is nothing so unclean as the breath of a smoker. So what do you say to that?”
“Well, when I go dere I ’spects to leave my breff behind me.”