<TITLE>16. Par 22-22</TITLE>L-22 And I thought, "That's not gentlemen like, but I--I don't want to talk to her." See? And I waited there. Then she said, "Say, you the conservation officer," said, "could I speak to you, just a minute?"
I said, "What did you want?"
She said, "Could I speak to you just a moment?"
I said, "What do you want?"
And she said, I thought, "That was nasty of you to act as a man," so just so indifferent, you know. And she said, "Are you a Christian?"
And I said, "No. What's that to you?" See?
And she said... She said, "Well, I just wondered." And she said, "Did you know you were borned under a sign?"
Oh, my. I said, "Look, lady, I don't want to know nothing about that. See?" I said, "Not giving you any short answer, I've got a mother at home. See?" And I said, "I don't want to know nothing about that."
She said, "Oh, don't be so hard."
And I said, "Well, I don't want to know nothing about that stuff." See? I said, "I know nothing about it; I know nothing about any religious things, and I--I don't want to know anything about it." And I said, "I don't want to hurt your feelings." I just keep looking on ahead.
She said, "My..." And she said, "You shouldn't act like that."
And I said, "Well, I--I don't mean not to be a gentlemen; but I--I..."
She said, "Look! This is nothing to do with religion." She said, "I'm on my road to Chicago." We was on a Greyhound bus. She said, "I'm going to see my son, which is a Baptist minister." She said, "I work in the White House." And she said, "Did you know the first thing, did you know this United States and all the astronomy, and how they do?"
I said, "I know nothing about it." See?
She said, "Well, I work in the White House." And she said, "Right as you go in the steps of the White House, there's a astronomer calender." Said, "There's a sailor standing behind you. Ask him if the moon doesn't control the tides."
I said, "I got sense enough to know that." See?
And she said, "Well, that's right." Said, "And your birth has something..." Said, "Perhaps, I will tell you just exactly when you was born, would you believe me?"
And I said, "You can't do it in the first place." See?
She said, "Oh, yes, I can."
I said, "Let's hear you."
Said, "You was born on April the 6th at five o'clock in the morning in 1909."
I said, "That's right." I said, "Tell this sailor when he was born."
She said, "I couldn't do it."
"Well," I said, "why can't you tell him, if you just... if you could tell me?"
She said, "Because you were borned under a sign; I don't know when that was to appear." She said, "Has ministers never talked to you?"


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