A SKEPTIC
A colored Baptist was exhorting. "Now, breddern and sistern, come up to de altar and have yo' sins washed away."
All came up but one man.
"Why, Brudder Jones, don't yo' want yo' sins washed away?"
"I done had my sins washed away."
"Yo' has? Where yo' had yo' sins washed away?"
"Ober at de Methodist church."
"Ah, Brudder Jones, yo' ain't been washed, yo' jes' been dry cleaned."
A PERSON OF DISCERNMENT
A Quaker had got himself into trouble with the authorities, and a constable called to escort him to the lock-up.