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The Old Soldier’s Story

by James Whitcomb Riley

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Brudder Sims

Dah’s Brudder Sims! Dast slam yo’ Bible shet
  An’ lef’ dat man alone—kase he’s de boss
  Ob all de preachahs ev’ I come across!
Day’s no twis’ in dat gospil book, I bet,
Ut Brudder Sims cain’t splanify, an’ set
  You’ min’ at eaze! W’at’s Moses an’ de Laws?
  W’at’s fo’ty days an’ nights ut Noey toss
Aroun’ de Dil-ooge?—W’at dem Chillen et
  De Lo’d rain down? W’at s’prise ole Joney so
In dat whale’s inna’ds?—W’at dat laddah mean
  Ut Jacop see?—an’ wha’ dat laddah go?—
Who clim dat laddah?—Wha’ dat laddah lean?—
  An’ wha’ dat laddah now? “Dast chalk yo’ toe
  Wid Faith,” sez Brudder Sims, “an’ den you know!”

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