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Updated: May 10, 2025
After sundry other religious formulas and their replies, concluding with a second call to prayer, our preacher rises, and in the voice with which Sir Hudibras was wont "To blaspheme custard through the nose," preaches El Waaz , or the advice-sermon. He sits down for a few minutes, and then, rising again, recites El Naat, or the Praise of the Prophet and his Companions.
At last he had a man of "intilligence," as he would have expressed it. He flung a parting shot though at his superior as Eugene departed. "Tell thim I'll sign fer thim when I git thim and naat before!" he rumbled. Eugene laughed. He knew no such message would be accepted, but he was glad to give Deegan an opportunity to blow off steam.
Shewer that's no work fer a white man to do." "And what do you call them, Deegan? Aren't they white?" "Shewer they're naat." "What are they, then? They're not black." "Nagurs, of coorse." "But they're not negroes." "Will, begad, they're naat white. Any man kin tell that be lookin' at thim." Eugene smiled. He understood at once the solid Irish temperament which could draw this hearty conclusion.
"Come along. I'll be glad to have ye. Ye can just make out the O. K. blanks and the repoarts and watch over the min sich times as I'll naat be there and well all told, ye'll have enough to keep ye busy." Eugene smiled. This was a pleasant prospect.
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