In Reply to: GROWTH WITHOUT FRUITULNESS: A Prophetic Parody posted by Proteus on July 14, 2004 at 20:44:44:
Mr. Proteus, I's a might bit confused. What you mean when you say,
"The owner of such a pit of heaps will he not surely make it good? He shall pay ox for ox. Shall he not pay if he gored a son or daughter? If the thief be not found, then the master of the house shall be brought unto the judges, to see whether he have put his hand unto his neighbor's goods."
This plumb don't make no sense. It be one of them things like "he say she say he say, she say he say she say."
Who be messin' with the owner's business in de first place? You say thief, you say judge, you say son, daughter, then there be these oxen. That sound like a bunch of tomfool business to me.
I never saw no "pit of heaps" in all my born days. What in the land of Goshen is this "heap"? That ain't no colored word, no sir. Ain't no white word I ever heard neither. Is you Chinese?