The Little Colonel1935

Miss Lloyd Sherman:
Mom Beck, why do they dunk the women in the river that way?

Becky Porter:
That's to save their souls and wash their sins away.

Miss Lloyd Sherman:
Will it wash my sins away?

Becky Porter:
Well, honey, you ain't got no sins. You is a little angel.

Miss Lloyd Sherman:
Well, would it wash my sins away if I had any?

Becky Porter:
Yes, honey. If you carried the right thought and believed it would.

Miss Lloyd Sherman:
Were you ever dunked, Mom Beck?

Walker:
A little river like that wouldn't do her no good. Child, she needs the Mississippi!