| Show philosophy IN at Encouraging one thief to keep others or of his ilk away WAS stopping for frU frasl Sl uvo two or turee three days bwy with a planter r I 1 aff as A near grenada miss san and doneday one day while ho he waschow was sho w ing me his cornfield we came ava N Ys cross across a colored man with a load of az 7 wood on his cart he had taken it from a chopping choppin near by which A belonged to the Y colonel and the latter called out oat here boy what have you been doing 1 I was jes lookin fur you kurnel to tell you how it was 1 I see how it was you have slipped in hero here and stolen my wood 1 I dun steal it kurnel I 1 was gwine ter cum up to do de house today to day an pay fur it awful times at my house dis lawnin sah now got breakfast break fas beff de ole woman began to chill den do de oldest gal sh she began to chill cbill den my boy henry was anfuso I 1 knowel de baby was all ober do de aloah hev a stick of wood at do doah kurnel an anso so I 1 driy over heah to git somo some androu and you are going to build afire and thaw them out davydo datsie Dats de ideal kurnel if it faint too late if deys all froze to death rin I 1 use some of oade do off dat ole cotton gin to make UD de coffins an I 1 reckon id best ask you if I 1 kin buryce bury cm down on dat knoll by do de pecan trees ill crowd em cm in clus aclus so as not to take up much room an if let mara J jim ira li It cum an preach do de funeral sermon ill ax de bawd to make you a big cotton crap the colonel laughed as the negro brove on and I 1 asked him Is h telling the truth bless you no hell draw it to town and sell it but you appeared to believe him certainly so long as I 1 let him steal occasionally hell keep all other would be thieves away and while be is skirmishing af after my wood ho he wont meddle with my pigs or chickens bickens detroit free press pres |
