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Show The Value ov Education. Jake was heard calling aoioss the fence to his neighbor's son, a colored youth, who gees to school at the Atlanta Cn'ored Univoreily: "Lock hysr, hoy, you goes ter school, don't yer?" i "Yes. sir," replied tho boy. 'Geltiu' edilyk-tsluiii, ain't yer?" "Yb, sir." "Larnin' 'rithmetick acd figeriu' on a slr.le, eh?" "Yes, sir." "Well, it don't take two whole days to niike d hour, do itf" "Why, no!" exclaimed the boy. "You w-ts gwine ter bring dat hatchet tack iu an hour, wBo't yer?" "Yea, fir." "An' it's bin two whole days pince you borrowed it, Now, what good's eddykashun gwioe ter do you thick-skulled thick-skulled niggers, when you go to Bchool a whole year an' den can't tell how long it takes to fotcb back a hatchet?"' ; Tbe boy got mad and slung the hatchet over the fence and half way through at ash-barrei. |