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the truth of it 'cause I wasn't there to see it with my own eyes—but they tell me they saw Lizzie getting in Jerry Reed's automobile down on Auburn Avenue late last Tuesday night—and he had all the curtains up."

"You don't say! A body'd think she'd have mo' sense than to do her dirt so bold like! I always heard that Jerry Reed wouldn't have a girl work for him unless he could get fresh with her. The nerve of her—she was at church last Sunday, struttin' round just as brazen as any fancy woman!"

"Lord, Mis' Plummer, I don't know what's gettin' into these coloured folks—they gettin' mo' like white folks ev'ry day. Comes from workin' in white folks' houses and in these here hotels—seein' all their dirt and thinkin' they got to do the same things white folks does."

"That's the God's truth! And say, Mis' King, did you know these new folks is Cath'lics? Well, they is—their name's 'Day-Quinn' or 'Day-kin' or something Frenchy like that. He's goin' to work down to the Lincoln Mutual Life Insurance Company—that's the company got them swell offices down Auburn Avenue."

"Cath'lics, is they? Any time I hear tell of coloured folks bein' anything 'cept Baptists or Methodists I know some white man's been tamperin' with their religion. That's what Booker T. said once and he sho' did know what he was talkin' 'bout."

"That's the God's truth! Wonder where these folks goin' to church? They tell me down in N'Awleens where there's so many furriners most anybody can go where they please long's they ain't black. But they better not try it in Georgia."

"Is you got a picture, Mis' Plummer, of any coloured folks no matter what kinda religion they got stickin' their heads in that 'Sacred Heart' church out Peachtree Street? White folks talk about Jesus but the only Jesus they thinkin' 'bout's