Show Busted Buted ted Toe Got No Sympathy From Uncle Uncle Eph Epli Jackson an old time old timo coo col colored ored field hand liand was hoeing cotton one hot day He was barefooted as he wanted wanted to save f his one pair of ot shoes for Sunday While he was hoeing he h noticed a mole sticking Its head out ot of the dirt As moles had been making th themselves a nuisance be he gave this fellow tellow n a hard hord rap rop with his hoe At that Instant Uncle Eph jumped and howled with pain for pain for it was his own big bl toe that he hp hud had whacked stend In-stend In- In stead of a II mole The toe bled consid considerably and Eph knew it would be sore for tor some time to come Hut But he was a old fellow and he hp always put the blame where 11 It t belongs He lIe fre fre- frequently fre- fre frequently aI I carried carrle l on OIl long Ion conversations with himself and ond so fO addressing his Wounded toe he called ailed olle l out You needn't think you Is gwine pit no sim paty turn tum me its it's oa own n fault an you ou knows It it Magazine |