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Show Mose Knew Not What Lucy Talked Of, but Howl Before the court on wife-brought charges of desertion and non-support, non-support, Mose Brown meekly admitted ad-mitted his guilt and offered nothing noth-ing in extenuation except. that the lady talked too much. "That's no excuse for desertion, Mose," said the judge. "The law gives a woman the right to talk all she wants to." "Yassuh, Jedge. I knows it do. Only Lucy she never stop talkin'. She keep it up stiddy, mo'nin', noon and night, till I cain't stan' it no mo'." "She does? What does she talk about?" inquired the court. "Jedge, suh," Moses said, "she don't say." |