th--you all go to hell and be damned.
Now den, let me see if you ab charity. Here, you see, I come to save
all your soul from hell-fire; and hell-fire dam hot, I can tell you.
Dere you all burn, like coal, till you turn white powder, and den burn
on till you come black again: and so you go on, burn, burn, sometime
white, sometime black, for ebber and ebber. The debil never allow
Sangoree to cool tongue. No, no cocoa-nut milk--not a lilly drap of
water; debil see you damned first. Suppose you ask, he poke um fire and
laugh. Well, den, ab you charity? No, you ab not. You, Quashee, how
you dare look me in the face? You keep shop--you sell egg--you sell
yam--you sell pepper hot--but when you give to me? Eh! nebber, so help
me God. Suppose you no send--you no ab charity, and you go to hell.
You black Sambo," continued he, pointing to a man in a corner, "ab very
fine boat, go out all day, catch fly-fish, bring um back, fry um, and
sell for money: but when you send to me? not one little fish ebber find
way to my mouth. What I tell you 'bout Peter and 'postles--all
fishermen? good men; give 'way to poor. Sambo, you no ab charity; and
'spose you no repent this week, and send one very fine fish in plantain
leaf, you go to hell, and burn for ebber and ebber. Eh! so you will run
away, Massa Johnson," cried he out to another, who was edging to the
door; "but you no run away from hell-fire; when debil catch you he hold
dam tight. You know you kill sheep and goat ebery day. You send bell
ring all 'bout town for people to come buy; but when you send to me?
nebber, 'cept once, you give me lilly bit of libber. That no do, Massa
Johnson; you no ab charity; and suppose you no send me sheep's head
to-morrow morning, dam you libber, that's all. I see many more, but I
see um all very sorry, and dat they mean to sin no more, so dis time I
let um off, and say nothing about it, because I know plenty of plantain
and banana" (pointing to one), "and oranges and shaddock" (pointing to
another), "and salt fish" (pointing to a third), "and ginger pop and
spruce beer," (pointing to a fourth), "and a straw hat" (pointing to a
fifth), "and eberything else, come to my house to-morrow. So I say no
more bout it; I see you all very sorry--you only forget. You all ab
charity and all ab faith; so now, my dear bredren, we go down on our
knees, and thank God for all this, and more especially that I save all
your souls from going to the debil, wh