![]() “No white people in my office on that spring day in 1968. Justez he wuz goin’ out de door de wind slammed it on his coattail and he hollered: “Aw naw, Gabrill, turn me loose! You ’low me de same chance you ’lowed dese others.” -JAMES PRESLEY.” But he wuz way up in de pulpit and so he wuz de very las’ one tuh reach de door. He kept on preachin’ in uh strainin’ voice wid his eyes shet tight, till he hollered ‘toot, toot’ and de parrot answered him so loud dat everybody heered ’im, an’ everybody bolted for de door, de preacher, too. But some of the people heard de parrot an’ dey begin slippin’ out a de church one an’ two at uh time. ![]() He said, “Brothers an’ sisters, when Gabrill shall plant one foot on sea an’ one on de dry land wid his trumpet in his hand an’ shall cry dat Time shall be no mo’-whut’ll you poor sinners do? When blows his trumpet, ‘Tooot toot’, whut will you do?” Every time he said ‘toot toot’ de parrot would answer him but he wuz so busy preachin’ he didn’t notice nothin’. ![]() So de preacher preached on till he got down to where de angel Gabrill would be blowin’. Somebody’s parrot had done got away and had done flew up in de loft uh de church, but nobody didn’t know it. “Gabriel’s Trumpet† One time uh preacher had uh church an’ his members wuz pretty wicked, so he made up his mind tuh give ’em uh strong sermon tuh shake ’em up. ![]()
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