PAWSON JOHNSON AT DINNER.
Reading edition
He’p you’se’f, mah bruddah, Jes’ make yo’se’f at home! ’Kaze yo’ am no stranger To Siss Wiggle Sloam. Go ’head on dat chicken, ’Kase it tissen skace! “Doan’ yo’ worry, sistah, I is in no has’e! “Lan’ sakes, Sistah Wiggle, You’ treat me lak er king! Ha! ha! ’skooze me, sistah, One mo’ chicken wing! Tote me few dem waffles, Chittlins good an’ hot! Ebbah thing ise eatin’ Trabbles to de spot! Lawd Gawd! Sistah Wiggle, I jes’ seed dat possum! Hiden’ an’ er grinin’ ’Hine dat sunflow’r blossom! ’Fo’ I’d let dat possum Git out o’ mah sight, Th’ow erside mah Gospel, To de las’ I’d fight! Bruddah, kain’t yo’ sortah Gibb er little toas’? ’Deed I kain’t, Gawd knows it, Whah dey’s possum roas’! Feed de lambs, mah Sistah, Whut de good book say! Yo’s fulfillin’ Scripshah Treatin’ me dis way!”
