A Poem about Jonah and the Whale, Part 1

This poem is funny to many people, but I hope you like it. I think there are lessons we can learn from it. There’s only time for half of the poem today. Be sure to come back tomorrow for the last half. Now listen, my children, I’ll tell you a tale,
How old Jonah, the Prophet, got caught by the Whale, The Whale caught poor Jonah and bless your dear soul,
e not only caught him but swallowed him whole.
 part of this story is awfully sad,
 It is how a big city went to the bad; hn the Lord saw those people with such wicked ways,
 aid, “I can’t stand them more’n forty more days.
 poke to old Jonah and said, “Go and cry ohse hard-hearted people and tell them that I
 Give them forty days more to get humbled down,
dfthey don’t to it, I’ll tear up their town. ”

Jonah heard the Lord speaking and he said, “No,
That’s against my religion and I won’t go: TsNneveh people mean noting to me,
 And I am against foreign missions you see.”

He went down to Joppa and there in great haste,
eodd a ship for a different place;
 The Lord looked down on that ship and said He, “lJa is fixing to run off from me.”

 He set the winds blowing with squeakes and with squeals
 And the sea got rowdy and kicked up its heels;
 Old Jonah confessed it was all for his sin;
 The crew threw him out and the whale took him in.

 The whale said, “Old fellow, don’t you forget,
 me ere to take you in out of the wet, Yuwle punished aright for your sin, ”
So he opened his mouth, and poor Jonah went in.
O e reen seaweed that fish tried to rest;
 He said, “I will sleep while my food I digest,”
 But he got mighty restless and sorely afraid
 And he rumbled inside as the old prophet prayed.