Every Tongue Got to Confess: Negro Folk-Tales From the Gulf States by Hurston Zora Neale

Author:Hurston, Zora Neale [Hurston, Zora Neale]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Classics, Historical
ISBN: 9780061741807
Amazon: 0061741809
Goodreads: 10345143
Publisher: Amistad
Published: 2001-11-27T08:00:00+00:00

They sang about all the graves of the people Moufy Emma had got killed, then they buried her still singing; and when they threw the last lump of dirt on her they said: “Mouf is de cause of it all.”

—LOUISE NOBLE.

Once in slavery time Ole Master had a slave named John. One day John stole one uh Ole Master’s sheep and took ’im home. Befo’ he could git it on de fire he seen Ole Master coming. So he took it an’ hid it in de baby cradle, an’ when Ole Master got dere he wuz sitting down rocking de sheep, making out it wuz uh baby.

Ole Master come on in de house. He seen John when he tool dat sheep but he didn’t let on. John wuz juster rockin’ away. Ole Master ast him, “John, whut you got in dat cradle?”

John kept on rocking away and tole him, “It’s us baby, Massa, it’s uh new baby we got.”

“Lemme see ’im, John.”

“Naw, Massa, I can’t let you see ’im. De doctor say not tuh take de cover offen him till he say so.”

“You better let me see ’im, John. I might kin cure ’im.”

“Naw, you can’t, Master. De doctor says not.”

“Well, John, I don’t care whut de doctor says, I’m gwinter see dat baby uh yours.”

John got up ready tuh run, an’ he says to Massa: “Well, Massa, I put dat in dere uh baby. I don’t give a damn whut it done turnt to.”

—JAMES MOSELEY.

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