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Show Wanted to Know the Culprit. The following story was told recently recent-ly by Austin Haines to a party of friends he entertained at luncheon: "Down in a little Florida town two negro families live in shanties about a stone's throw apart. They obtain their drinking water from a shallow open well located midway between the two houses. A fence which separates the two yards' is built up to the well on both sides. Every evening after her day's work it done, it is the custom cus-tom of one of the negro mammies to pick up buckets and go to the well for water. One day the ow'ner of the property moved the fence back about ten feet from where it originally stood. That evening when Eliza started out with her pail she fixed her eye on the fence and made straight for it. Walking Walk-ing hurriedly along the beaten path, she plunged into the shallow well with a splash. Her screams brought immediate im-mediate assistance, and as she Climbed Climb-ed out and spied the fence ten feet away she indignantly exclaimed: " 'Now, who done moved dat well?' " |