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Show Objected to hole Bricks. An old negro came tumbling outof a cabin, und just as be fell in the road, a short distance dis-tance away, a brick thrown from the house struck him on the head. He lay there for several moments, and then, getting up, turned to a white man who happened to bo passing and, as he wiped the blood off his head, remarked re-marked : "Dat's jez' zackly whuf make me say wdiut I does say." "And what do yon say?"' the white man asked. "W'y, dat dis marry in' dat tho white folks talk so much erbout is er failure sho 'nnff. Ifow, dar's dat lady in de house (again wiping wip-ing off the blood) dat I has thought er good 'eal o'. But now lixik at me. Is I fitten to go in s'ciety wid sich er lady fur er wifpf Long ez she didn' fling nothiu' but brickbats, w'y she'd sorter do, nn' I could go in s'ciety wid her, but now dat she is tuck ter fiiugin' whole- bricks w'y I kain't put up wid it. Lool out fur dese ladies dat flings whole bricks. "-Arkansuw "-Arkansuw Traveler. |