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Show SHE HAD HIM GUESSING. AX engine driver of the Cotton Belt Itallwny Com-pany Com-pany relates tho following: "I came to Little Rock about twenty years ago. A ceusus ngent was here at '.he time taking tbo census. cen-sus. Down In Itoctor sUeet, which wasn't near ns long us it is uov, Ue encountered an old ncgress. In response to bis req est she went out to tbo fence and leaned with her aims It while ho asked her name, how many children she had .nd her ago. At the last question she exclaimed: "Law, aiassa, I dunno!" "Can't you give me souiu h'ca?" "No, sah." "Well, give n guess bout : ." She walled her eyes around a moment and said: "ill tell you tho best I can, niassa. I have been here about seventy-five years. I ,vas .ro u,. tLt. Mars fell, and I Inew George Washington ami Adam. Now you can do the guessing." |