IF YOU KNEW.
Oh. If you knew how verv pad and lonely.
How.lrei.r. how homelesR In my house am I,
Sometimes mlown the street, lor that thought
ouly,
You'd Just pass by.
If you hut knew the thoughts that germ and
crow
Ana blossom in sad hearts, with one bright
glance,
One look up to my wiudow you would throw.
As if by chance.
A"d If you Knew to the 8lck soul the healing
That comes lrom the mere presence of an
other. . .
You'd rust a moment 'neath my doorway, reel
ing
For a lone brother,
ttnl. If von knew I loved vou. If you kncivit,
With what a love, how deep, how tender, dear,
You'd come your very neurt wouia mane yuu
Jo it
Straight to me here. Anon,
Handsome Presidents
Tustlv enough lias it "been said tliat
"no man ever was
the United States
looks." Many of our Presidents never
elected President of
because of his good
tion of the man, and remarkable as com
ing from a relative, who was 19 years old
at the time of the ex-President's death .
President Jefferson was a very tall
man as tall as "Washington and this, a
drawback on his figure when he was
young and slim, was highly favorable to
his appearance in later life. He was,
even in youth, an impressive man, with
a good, but not a handsome face. He
was a very fair man, and for every man
of that complexion who is good-looking
there are at least twenty dark men who
are thus favored by nature. He was a
polite and pleasing man, but he never
insulted others by condescension. Mr.
William Sullivan tells us that President
Madison was "a man of small stature and
grave appearance" when in Congress
(1789-97), adding that "at the close of
his Presidency (1817) he seemed to be
a careworn man, and appeared, by his
face, to have advanced to a more mature
age than was the fact. He had a calm
expression, a penetrating blue eye, and
looked like a thinking man. He was
dressed in black, bald on the top of his
head, powdered, of rather protuberant
i ii i i i
person in iront, smaii lower nmos
(meaning spindle shanKsj ana grave m
frequently do marry very hideous fel
lows; and there is consolation in the
fact, for misery likes consolation as
much as it likes company. To adjust
the balance between the sexes, many
wise men marry very dull women, who
make good wives of the "homely house
hold savor" order women who will wash
well and wear better.
Bound to Boss tlio Funeral.
could have been nominated for office had
bad beauty been an indispensable quali- speech." Evidently not a beauty man,
fication in our National Chief Magistrate.
i in imcn rw
"Washington, was a man of
presence, and it would have been ad
mitted that he was better looking than
most men, even by an observer who was
but he had capital brains.
Of President Monroe we have two ac
counts, one representing him as tall and
insignificant, and the other as short and
more insignificant. A life of him by a
competent person, could be made a more
A policeman who was beating through
"Kaintuck" one afternoon, was halted by
a little negro man who had business in
his eye and both hands tightly clenched
as he said:
"Say, boss, am you gwine to be 'round
yere to-morrer afternoon?"
"Yes, I suppose so."
"Waal, dar's gwine to be the power
fullest fuss up yore dat ole Kaintuck
eber saw, an" you'd better hev about six
pa'r o' handcuffs an' shackles ready."
"Why, what's the trouble now?"
"Truble nuff, sah. You see de old
man Jinking, 'round on Illinoy street,
am gwine to die afore night. Dat's settled
fur shuah."
"Yes."
"Waal, de ole man has axed me to sort
o' boss de fun'ral 'rangements. kase he
knows I'm solid on sich lings. Ize
tended to f un'rals so long dat Ize ot de
you see."
Scenes of Whittler's Childhood.
Father Farrell's Estate.
hang of em,
"Yes."
not under the power of the spell cast by infnrGSfinr AVOrk than that of anv other
his great deeds and great name. The presitient AVe had in the sixty years that
popular luea oi ine iaiuer oi uia country Rnrafe the outeoiuer of John Adams
inmnp f vryv Cfl101f'o T1Mf VO 1 f. O Tl fl fllOVO I i1 1 T" 1
wuirauuuiuuittiuo A7xi-xti., i.j-ivi. trrm t in mnnminrr nr a lira ii am ijinnnin
ibui, iuwiu uuiupwuu tt,".uvvv. . . President John uumcy Adams was a
the famous painting is too highly ideal- 8mall man We SttW him about tlie
ized to aftord a just likeness of the just tim0 he had entered his 70th year, when
man. in lur. JiiCimuna uuincy s nouie mnJir,1nva wi linn 1 mnl-ino-
) -
"Life of Josiah Quincy," we find the
following lively passage: "I was curi
ous to know how my father's recollec
tions of the personal appearance of
Washington agreed with the popular de
scriptions and pictorial representations
of it with which we are all familiar. He
was not an imaginative man, and never
dressed his heroes iu colors of fancy.
No man had a profounder reverence for
Washington than he, but this did not af
fect his perceptions of physical phenom
ena, nor his recollections of them. My
mother, on the contrary, was oi imagi
saw him
ing on
a superb
him stoop. President Jackson would
have had a handsome figure had he not
been so thin and spare: but as wo
only when he was rid-
norseback and he was
horseman he may have ap
peared to be better looking than he was.
His face was wan and thin, and his hair,
which was abundant, though he was b'G
years old, was mint wnite. jrresment
Van Buren we saw when he was 51 years
old, he being then Vice President, and
we thought he would have been band
er n if liio flnwinrr InnVc lmrl nnf. Iippti
nation all compact,' and Washington was , before remove(i hy the malignity of
m her minds eye, as she recalled him, tim Baldness makes a handsome man
more than a nero a superior ueing, as
far above the common race of mankind in
majesty and grace of per on and
bearing as in moral grandeur.
This was one f the few subjects
ugly, and an
ugly
man
uglier
Presi-
Waal, dar's Dekun Allen, libin' obor
on Calhoun street, one of the most
pompous Africans in Detroit. Just as
suah as a black man shuflles off de coi
anywhar' aroun' 'heah de Dekun' he alius
wants to boss de fun ral bizness
"Does, eh?"
"He does, sah, an' he's de poorest
han' vou eber saw. He can't start a
hymn, nor make any sort o' speech on
de shmm qualities of de late deceased.
Why, what d'ye spose de Dekun got oft'
ober heah on Clay street at a fun'ral in
Jinuary?"
I can t say.
T T t n t 1
why, he said dat man cometh up
like a liower an am cut down. De de
ceased wasn't a man at all, but a girl, an'
de ideah of flowers coming up in Janu
ary ! Sich ignorance, sah, needs re
buke."
'Well, what about this fuss to-mor
row V"
"Waal, sah, Ize been requested to boss
dat fun'ral. I'ze bin requested by de
worry man who am gwine to form the
ing been good looking in early life, and
portraits of him in his age confirmed the
liolinf flinf. linrl rrmm down. "Prnsidonf.
on which my lather and mother ditlered Tyler really Avas a good looking man,
dent Harrison had the reputation of hav- subjeck of the sad occashun. De Dekum
but he was not very lar advanced in
vears when he entered office. President
Polk was paltry, and seemed to be feeble.
President Taylor was rugged, but he had
a good head.
The handsomest of all our Presidents
red that the norrnrir bv lne handsomest oi all our residents """" , H A
iiorr ,i;r.;rr i.-D was unquestionably President Fillmore. snea on mv Sunday coat an purceed to
college dinmg-iooms in anva:m of rrnnnn,ori,ifl TOnQfnvii "Mow mangle him widin two inches of his life!
became
in opinion, lie maintained that fctuart s
jjortrait is a highly idealized one, pre
sentmg its great subject as the artist
thought he ought to live in the minds of
posterity, but not a strong resemblance
of the actual man in the flesh. He
alwavs declared
Savage in the
Harvard Hall, at Cambridge, was the
best likeness he had ever seen of Wash
ington, though its merits as a work of
art are but small. One dav, when talk
ing over those times in his old age, I
asked my father to tell me what were his
recollections of Washington s personal
presence and bearing. I will tell you,
said he, 'just how he struck me. He re
minlnl inn nf tlin rrnnf.loiiin tvlin ncrwl
to come to Boston in those days to attend hre' b"fc ebster
t, in (TPiinrn ( onrt lrom MjimiH on nr
Franklin County, iu the western part of
the State. A little stiff in his person,
not a little formal in his manners, not
jmrtieularly at ease in the 2resence of
strangers. He had the air of a country
gentleman not accustomed to mix much
m society, perfectly polite but not easy
in his address and conversation, and
not graceful in his gait and move
ments.' From the recollections of Mr.
(William) Sullivam, which. he
published many years afterward, it
would seem that the impression made
upon him by Washington, who was the
object of his political idolatry, was the
same as that made upon his friend.' He
says: 'In his own house his action was
calm, deliberate and dignified, without
pretensions to gracefulness or peculiar
manner, but merely natural, as might be
expected in such a man. When walking
in the street his movements had not the
soldierly air which might have been ex
pected. His habitual notions had been
. formed long before he took command of
the American armies, in the wn.is of fhn
interior, or in the survovinf? of tlm deal of experience of life.
wilderness lands employments in which bachelor the only bachelor
elegance pud grace were not likely to be
jicquired. It certainly was perfectly
natural that Washington's manners
should have been those of a country
gentleman living remote from cities, ho
having been engaged in rural occupations
the chief part of his life, and moving in
a verv narrow circle
will be obor dar as usual, put tin' on scol
lops an tellm folks to stan back and so
on. He'll swell up an' walk 'round wid
his hands behin his back, same as if he
owned de hull street, an' same as if I
wasn t Knee-high to a clothes-hoss.
"Well?"
"Well, sah, dar will be a rekonter
between de Dekum an' myself. De wery
minit dat he begins to swell up I shall
I'll do it I'll do it, sail, if I have to go
to State jrison fur a tousan' y'ars."
"I wouldn't."
" But I will, sah ! Ize gibben you far
warnin , sah, an il you am not on han
wid a one-horse wagin' to convoy de
body of de Dekum to his late home it
won't be my fault. Dat's all, sah ex-
cejr dat 1 strike with ooul lists to once,
an dat de pusson strucK at soon pines
away an dies, wood day, sah. Detroit
Free Press.
A Brooklyn Princess.
York) some vears before he
President, and not at first knowing him;
and we thought then, as we think now,
that he was a most striking specimen of
masculine beauty. The only men we
have seen to be classed with him in looks
are Mr. Webster in his fort3'-niuth year,
and Mr. Hawthorne m his fiftieth year.
Mr. Fillmore had the best figure of the
had tho bet
Hawthorne's face was
that of a god in marble, and it was well
set off by the best of black hair. Presi-
dnnf Pinvnn irno i lilon1 ill no ci 11 rr to on
but he would not have been noted for
good looks in a crowd. President Bu
chanan had a large j)resence, but his face
often haa a semi-simpering expression
that did not match well with his portly
uroDortions. Mr. HaAvthorne. who was
consul at Liverpool for much of the
time that Mr. Buchanan was our min
ister in London, saw something of him,
and wrote of him in his note book, on
the 13th of September, 1855: "The tall,
largo figure of Mr. has a certain
air oi state and dignity: he carries his
head in a verv awkward way, but. still
looks like a man of long and higlf au
thority, and, with his white hair, is now
quite venerable. There is certainly a
lack of polish, a kind of rusticity, not
withstanding which you feel him to be a
iiinn nf l,r h'ai.II T aliriill f.liinlr 1 1 n
might snccecl very tolerably in CuKlish fU great world beyond, aa
..-' C ... :l iftia fn ann if. H r wou on r I
I.. !!.. .1 .1 1 .1 . . i- I . i- I WHO, UVJ OtU 11'. Ih.i c.u JU
. " O u I inf.fr ri mno fr inrnrncr tn rlwi fn
male members of tho church, but es
caped all their snares until the plaintiff
A little more than a mile out of town
we 2ass three beautiful sheets of water,
the most noteworthy of which formerly
bore the name of "Great Pond," to dis
tinguish it from its lesser neighbors, but
not many years since it was re-christened
"Kenoza," the Indian name for pickerel,
with which it abounds. Whittier con
tributed to the christening ceremonies
the sweet and musical poem which, in
his published collection, bears the title
of "Kenoza Lake. ' It closes with the
exquisite and devout stanza:
And when the summer dsxy grows dim
And light mists wulk the miniie seu,
Revive In us the thought of Him
Who walked on Galilee.
Keeping by the beautiful lake, with its
lofty and irregular shoro, wooded on the
side opposite us to the water's odge, we
take a road to the left which soon brings
us to the veritable old home, a two-storehouse
with a large chimney in the cen
ter. The small square porch at the side
of the house, and particularly the stone
step, must be noticed, for it was "on
this door stone, gray and rude," that the
"Barefoot Boy," Whittier being himself
the hero of that poem, enjoyed his
'Bowl of milk and brend."
Near the house and crossing the road
is the little stream, "the buried brook
let," of "Snow Bound," which in summer
"laughed ' for the "Barefoot Boy," and i
whose constant ripple was ever "through
tho day and through tho night whisper
ing at the garden wall." Here, between
house and barn, is the road which be
came "a fenceless drift" in the "Snow
Bound" winter, and here the old barn to
which, after tunneling the drift, they
went to the relief of the "prisoned
brutes, and where
The oxen lashed their tails anc honked,
And mild reproach of hunger look..d.
The house stands in a hollow, and tho
roads about it form a sort of irregular
triangle, and by driving back and forth
you can get not only the views given in
Hills picture of tho place, but others
equally attractive. On the drive toward
the house and near Kenoza lake, is a
short street, which it is worth while to
drive down; you can easily return to the
main road. Here you will find a pic
turesque, one-story house, with a door
in the center reaching to the root. I
think you cannot fail to recognize it
I The will of the late Bev.
rell, of St. Joseph's church, in this city,
disposed of about S12,500. The broad;
noss of view and tolerance of spirit which
Father
it was the home
"elder sister" of
writes in "Snow
A divorce suit is pending in Brooklyn
entitled Trice against Trice, the parties
being colored, in connection with which
there are some curious stories. Both
sides claim a decree, the wife, who
is the plaintiff, on tho ground of the
defendant's unhusbaudlike conduct, and
the husband on the ground that when he
married the woman she had a husband
living in Africa, no less a person than
the King of the Ashantees. About the
year 18u5, a tall young black from Africa
found his way to Brooklyn. Ho could
not speak English, but ho acquired the
language readily, and it was soon known
in tho Siloam Presbvterian church, into
which ho happened to fall, that he was
Albert Agamon. the eldest son of the
Ashanteo king. Ho had heard in his
to was a
President
we have had which, perhaps, was the
reason he took the dissolution of tne
Union so easily. It has been said that he
had a love affair in his youth that turned
out unluckily, like many another such
affair.
was called, at the age af &3,to the leader
ship of tho devolution.' " Wo prefer
Mrs. Josiah Quincy s estimate of Wash
ington to that of her husband, because
sho was a woman capable of forming
opinions on all matters, and because
President Lincoln was of an ungainly
of society when he figure, but he had a good head and a
most expressive face. - He, too, had an
affair of the heart, and a friend of his
told us that he had never seen or hoard
of a stranger one, and that
no romance contained anything more
complete of tho kind
women are far better judges of character ho said, "he would have died had not
than men; but Mr. Quincy s estimate is the landlady relented." So one need
net be a beauty man to suffer from the
common fever of lire. General Grant is
a plain, short man, but in
1 . - A 1 - 1
mm, su grunt, mo ms ueeus, men are
affected much as poor Desdeinona wu
when she listened to Othello's tough
yarns, and half of which were probably
lies. Mr. Johnson was a personable
President, and President Hayes is far
vif?nr and long life, yet, as he grew old, from being ill-looking. General Han-
-. . w t - , 1 -1 1 1. 1 -1 1
inclining more and mora to commence. i emm iu uo mmusorae, ana tne
His head was large and round, with a portraits of General Garfield represent
-wide forehead and expanded brows. His him as a man of lino appearance. 'Tis
Vfl WflS 111 11 CI UIJU UUUlKllUm, JOluiiMO j.iju i,iug 1U1
;.nn iiinn nmii r. when he was free from beauty m men as men care for it in
nmntion but when excited it fully ex- women. It may be so wo know nothing
pressed the vehemence of tho spirit that
stirred witMn. His presence was grave
entitled to great weight.
President Jonn Adams portraits
create the belief that he was a good look
ing man when young, and also in middle
life. His grandson, Mr. C. F. Adams,in
closing his "Life" of his grandfather,
says: "In figure John Adams was not
tall, scarcely exceeding middle neigut,
but of a stout, well knit frame, denoting
in tho present suit, then a comely color
ed widow, smiled upon him. He marn-
her, and she became a princess. They
lived together in harmonv for some
years, and a little prince was born, who
is stilj a resident of Brooklyn. In the
meantime the prince became an ardent
Christian, and was licensed to preach.
ifter a while he was persuaded that
through him Christianity might be es
tablished among his native people, and
with this as his mission, he set out on a
I'ioif fn liia nnvlv linmn TTlinil vnilf'.lnnfr
l do believe, tj1Q qjj COast, ho wrote back to his wife
that his father, the lung, was growing
feeble and desired his first-born to bo
near him, ready when death came to re-
I tilt i it 1 X.
ceivo his mantle. This was tne lasc ever
heard jn Brooklyn from Prince Agamon.
After several vears had elapsed, the
. . i r.
and imposing on serious occasions, out,
not unbending." A very good descrip-
-1 L LI 1 L. 1 1 I
uuuul. iuu mutter; uut goou iOOKS are
passports everywhere, like good man
ners and good propriety. Yet it must
be allowed that very handsome women
Brooklyn Princess was married to Chas.
Trice, who is now a waiter at the lloeka-
way hotel. JV. Y. Times.
G. LeBow and G. Noel find tho smoke
of tobacco contains hydrocyanic acid, an
alkaloid as poisonous as nicotine, and
various aromatic principles. The
alkaloid has a pleasant odor, but it is
dangerous to inhale, and it has proved
fatal to animals in doses of about tho
twentieth of a drop. They consider it
identical with collidino, the existence of
which has been traced m the products of
tho destructive 'distillation of sovoral
organic substances.
from this description.
of Mrs. Caldwell, the
the poet, of whom he
Bound."
Oh, heart sore-tired! thou hast the best
That Hoaveu itsell :un give thee rest.
Rest from all 'bitter thoughts and things!
How many a poor one's blensing went
With thee beneath the low green tent,
Whose curtain never outward swings.
On the return drive you will wish to
see the spot where the school house of
Whittier's childhood and of the poem
entitled "In School Days" stood' In
this poem, you will remember, he has
celebrated the devotion of the little girl
with
Tangled golden curls,
And brown eyes full of grieving,
Who said,
I'm sorry that I spelt the word,
I hate to go above you ;
"Because." the brown eyes lower fell,
"Because,1' you see, "I love you."
You must take the road as you drive
toward Haverhill proper (the home
stead is in East Haverhill), which will
bring the house on the left and the barn
on the right. Soon after passing the
latter, and on the same side of the road.
you will come to the site of the school
house, which has within a short time
been torn down, much to the disgust of
all tourists Here, says one of his com
panions, Whittier used to sit and read
Bible stories when the other boys wero at
recess. I can easily believe this of him,
for his poems abound in Scriptural al
lusions that he uses with a skill which
could only be gained by early familiarity
with the Old and jScw Testaments.
Our Railway System. The New York
Indicator says during the past ten years
the railway system of the United States
has nearly doubled in extent of mileage.
During this period we have had six
years of commercial revulsion and al
most univorsal bankruptcy. Xfc is not
the extraordinary extension of our rail
way system alone that challenges atten
tion, but the marked improvements that
have been made in the many older roads,
and especially in the so-called trunk
lines. Wooden bridges have been re
moved and iron structures substituted in
their stead; iron rails replaced 03' steel;
the building of freight cars of double the
capacity of the old ones, carrying twenty
tons of live weight instead of ten, as
formerly, and more substantial and
thoroughly ballasted road-beds. These
improvements, although expensive, are
the first principles of economical man
agement, and make it possible for our
well-built and best equipped roads to do
the largest amount of work at the least
2)0ssible cost. As a result, many of our
best roads are carrying freight at tho
present time at a profit, yet at rates that
would not havo covered the cost ten
years ago. it is the completeness of this
system in furnishing cheap transporta
tion from tho centers of the great grain
growing districts of tho West that has
given such an enormous increase of
American food crops, and enables us to
successfully compete with all other
countries in the worfd in tho supply of
lood.
it indicated in the testator attracted at
tention at the time of its publication.
There was also incidentally aroused
some surprise that a parish priest should
have accumulated so much money. Tho
question has been raised by those who
knew Father Farrell only by general
reputatation, how he could hayo gained
so much money from his position in St.
Joseph's parish. The answer to this
question is that he did not so gain it, and
in the mercantile sense of that word he
did not gain it at all. It was given to
him . His friends, including the trustees
of St. Joseph's church, desire this to be
understood, in order that his true char
acter may be made plain to all.
The property was given to Father Far-
rell in Alabama State bonds by personal
friends, who were not of his faith, when
the bonds were not of as much yalue as
they iire now. The basis and true reason
for'the gift was Father Farrell's love for
his country. Although he was e'ducated.
in a Southern State, he was a warm sup
porter of the Government. In the dark
est hours of tho war his voice was clear
est in upholding the union. His patriotic
impulses led him to the front, where he
labored in hospitals and on battle-fields.
The gift was made so delicately that an
effort, made yesterday, to learn the names
of the donors or tho occasion of the pre
sentation, failed, though inquiries were
made of friends who wero long intimate
with him.
To show Father Farrell's confidence in
the Government and his sense of duty
toward it, the following is told: A friend
L 1 1 i. 1 .1 1.L,.
had insisted on paying him about $80,
000 in United States paper money, then
newly made a legal tender. He wanted
to know what Father Farrell had to say
about that. The priest told him that the
transaction was past, and that it was idle
to say anything about it; "but," said he,
"I can tell you what to do with it. Give
it to Uncle Sam. Buy five-twenties with
it." A second time his fritfhd called with
a repetition of his grievance. A second
debtor had put off about 830,000 of the
new legal tender on him. Again Father
Farrell advised him to bivy five twenties.
Ho shook his head and Avent away. A
third time his friend called on him ; this
time to tell the priest to take the $80,000
and keep it for him. He did not know
whom else to trust in those times.
"No," said Father Farrell; "I don't
want it; but if I should take it, I should
let Uncle Sam have everv cent of it."
Again thefriend shook his head. "You
won't let Uncle Sam have any of my
money," he said.
It was not long afterward that the
friend made a fourth visit. He came to
tell Father Farrell that he had invested
the 880,000 in five-twenties. This, of
course, proved very profitable. It is
said, however, that this friend was not
among those who made Father Farrell
the gift referred to. JV. Y. Sun.
The Story of Four Law Students.
In the law office of John C. Spencer,at
Canandaigua, N. Y., in 1831-2, were
four young law students, to fortune and
to fame unknown. Under the careful
guidance of Mr. Spencer they were duly
admitted to the bar in 1831:, and one of
them at once struck out for the West,
locating at Cleveland. Here he stuck
fast, and while waiting the expiration of
the 0 months required by the Ohio lawsbe
fore a citizen of another State can
practice in her courts, he was surprised
by a call from his three fellow students.
They were looking for places to hang out
their shingles. "Well, one of
3ou can stay hero with me; an
other of you can go further to
this little French village they call De
troit, and the other can push on to a new
place they (tall Chicago, on the site of
old Fort Dearborn." After a little con
sultation, this plan was finally agreed to.
The one who went to "the little French
village," was George C. Bates; he who
went further on was Stephen A. Doug
las, who made a mistake aud went to
Springfield instead of Chicago; while ha
who remained m Cleveland was Henry
B. Payne. This was in 1831. ThVyoung
man who thus planned out the career of
his three companions was E. H. Thomp
son, now of Flint, Michigan, who told
us the circumstances.
When a man is guilty of a breach of
trust, when he loses the money of other
people, or when a man makes a bad
failure, showing large liabilities and
insignificant assets, the matter is made
notorious by publication and tho talk of
ten, especially if the offender be a
member of the church. But if a man is
honest, if he niakss an unusual exhibi
tion of integrity, that receives only
trilling notice, and nobody stops to in
quire whether the virtue he exhibits is
an example of Christian integrity or is
due to the power of Scriptural truth.
A Candid Darkey. An old darkey,
who had "put away" watermelons every
summer for sixty years, stood in front of
one of our groceiy houses eyeing a pile
of that fruit. Tho merchant, who sat in
the door, noticed the wistfulness of the
African's gaze, and finally asked, "Don't
you want to buy one of those melons,
uncle.'1 How much you axed for one,
boss?" inquired the African, still keep
ing his gaze on the melon. "Twenty-
hve cents, replied the merchant, getting
up from his chair and stepping to the
side of the hillock. "What you gib me
one half fur?" asked the darkey, hiking
a step toward the pile. "Fifteen cents,"
replied the dealer, lifting one in his
hands. "What'll yer sell me a slice
fur?" asked Africa. "Ten cents," said
the accommodating merchant. "A bite
ob one?" continued the darkey. "Five
cents, answered the merchant, as he
picked up a knife and started to pluck
out a xieco about two inches square.
"Hold on, boss! Pse an honest niggah.
You say you gib me a bite for five cents.
Well, sah, if I takes a bite ob dat melon
you'll be setin' heah in a pow'f ul study
an' er wond'rin' what 'come ob de bal
ance ob it. Now, boss, heah's de two
bits. Der ain't nuffin' mean 'bout me
when it gits up to watermelons" He
took the watermelons and went off to
hunt the shade. fTallahasse Floridan. ,
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