Show THE LIMEKILN CLUB Brother Gardner Ruminates on the Worlds Condition I has been walkin around on top dis airth mighty nigh my allotted times time-s id Brother Gardner as the band ceased playing and yit some things are jist as much a mystery to me as when I was 20 II How does it happen dat de folsses who aai headober heels in debt put on the ninna style Why am it dat de man wid a head full of brains mus play second fiddle to a monkey wid a pocket full o money How does it come dat datwhile we purfess to lub our naybor npthm tickles us mo dan to har he has re ceived a set back bud mus take a cheaper house How am it dat de man wid de big gest dimum pin an de woman wid de moas real lace oa her dress detr git shet of connterfeit nicklea sooner dan body else any Show me a party of fifty passons gwine to make a trip to Yurup aii 1J pint out thirtyfive who am stavin1 off creditors to do it We complain dat servant gals doanl know deir dunes an we eddicate our darters to ignore housework as beneal f em De hired gals of de next genera shun wont be to blame it dev inix bread in de bath tub an mash tater wid a beer bottle When de preacher vita nn in ro mil pit an spiams oat ue African heathen am pinin fur tracks an Bibles we she 11 out de cash wid hot ringers When dc widder calls at de front doah to inform us dat her children cold am and hungry an ragged we keep de cash keerfully y salted don an wonder if an auto graph album wouldnt help de fam1 pull frcw lamly Seems to me as lean on de fence an look ober de landscape dat a good sheer of dis world am wrong eand to t De shine of brass ketches de deeye t bar silver am unnoticed A loud voic gathers crowd sooner da i as net Boa e Society demands a drtsi cot ju uh te shirt an if datdemand am satisfied no body will ax lie wearer whether he has been in State prison or State legislachur 1 Let us now prceed to dispatch de rou t ne bizuess of de evenin WASTED IT CHANGED Shindig Watkins desired to call the attention of the meeting to the fact tha j there was a shoal in Lake Huron which had been set down on the charts by the government surveyors as Niger Head Shoal He for one felt it to be a reflec tion on his race and he hoped the club would forward its protest to Congress Brudder Watkin do you call your self President a nigger1 blandly iuquired the A No sahno tab In cose dont Ise a culld man sah Zactly Brudder Watkins an so am I an all the res of the crowd If dar am any nigger who wants to complain about dat shoal let him go ahead it am uone of our funeral Brother Watkins sat down but he didnt look exactly like a man who had gained a barrel and a half of valuable information for nothingDetroit Free Press |