Show BUT WAS IT THE SAME MELON paper carried by darky amounted almost to perpetual permit I 1 A negro just loves a watermelon said representative johnson ot of south carolina strange too that when a policeman sees a negro with a melon at an unreasonable hour he has haa it ib right down that the darky has stolen that watermelon I 1 heard a story about a policeman who met a negro neero in tho the early hours of the morning and he had a big melon on his shoulder 11 11 1 I see you have 4 a melon there yes bah answered the darky ise got or er melon but iso fixed for you sah sab and pulling out a paper he 0 handed it to the officer who read this bearer of this Is 0 K 11 he paid me ten cents for the melon and he Is a pillar in the church james elder Y you u are fixed said the officer lylas loats what I 1 lowed answered the negro and he moved on washington herald |