Show no ho judge of women BY DABNEY MARSHALL 1801 1901 by the tha dally daily story pub co jilts hits like dis squire said a big hurley burley oil mill hand addressing that functionary in tile the awed deferential tone of voice which tho the colored brother scorns acorns to use except when speaking to preachers or administrators of the criminal law ise ilse called to question de arrest ot at a culled lady she bhe have stole my pin I 1 be er raisin all dis san about dat pin but I 1 shore lubs luba it my bradder paid six bits ter fer dat pin in kansas city kansas city Moso urah how I 1 know she stole it hits dis way I 1 went to see a lady what tells fortunes down on do de levee what do fortune teller got to do wid it squire it if you dont quit dat way in a gener gen ermana mans eions you will work confuse contu ments off of dat fortune teller got all to do wid it why dat lady just brought fortune tellin to dis als world 1 I let lef my coat with dat pin in the hem when I 1 went off to work D dere ere want nobody in dat house the two ladles ladies what cooks tor for me what a man dat clat aint married doln with two cooks well now dare aint no law as I 1 knows hebting a ge normans hav IQ as many cooks as ho he has do de wages to ao pay ter fer 1 I jes nat cherly gets geta tired er cr champn grub fixed by the same pus son all the time and besides the good book says contrariety la Is the spice of life when I 1 tuna home tor for my eve mins fresh meats I 1 missed dat pin and I 1 knowel one of dem dein cooks had done it but which er one I 1 say so I 1 hits the grit for tho the fortune tellers studio or dudlo dey day calls it down on tile the levee As aa soon as ever I 1 gets geta my hoots hoofs on dat white womans comans carpet sho she up and iowa youse bouso tn in trouble now how she know inow I 1 in trouble copen she were a dortine teller I 1 says astonished lady you shore hit the and that aint no lie ile then sho looks tt at me ergin and she isaas says and may deits je its about craps crapa er the tha lottery and you wants to know tile the lucky numbers and youve come to the lady what knows just what tickets will draw and what wont 1 then afore I 1 could say she looks at the deck ergin and says no I 1 7 0 d youse in trouble lel taint craps crapa hits youse bothered about I 1 says astonished shed ergin you shore made the coupling thai that time and its ita about two that bothers me den quick as light lightning nin she bho bays say yes and one of 0 the ladies lubs you bettor better than the other though both of their hearts is yourn and one Is darker than tho the other now how she know dat how she one fine out dey aint de same color and dat dat whiney voice narceis aint as dead stuck on me as aa miss nancy den I 1 up and tells her dey bote bate were gone on me and do bofe bobe said I 1 was her honey babe I 1 was bound to lesa dat Nar narceis cees so on me as nancy den I 1 tella her about dat pin and axes her which of dem got dat pin fane blie flings a red rag with gold dollars stomped on it accost her face ace and breaths loud a long time but las as ai a i I 1 was gittin like alk and the door sho she flung it off and walls up dem orba of hern hem and reaches out for the spots then she says in a ginger cake voice mr washington it Is the light lady what Is the larcener of your jooley then to the queen of hearts she says ator lous like you will preserve mr air washington it Is a red queen and not a black queen that the has turn up and hence it Is the light lady what has larcen ered your pin 1 I gives her twenty five cents and she says polite as a basket of chips sir washington I 1 would be proud to have you call ergin when youse in trouble and lot let mo me and the cards hex tricase you from your the cards never lies iles I 1 gives you my own word ter it says saya she now I 1 wants you to have dat narcess rested and flung in jail and when she am sont up there with doin dem and crap shooters shell learn better than to hook her champers clam pers on jooley what aint hern cant have her rested on evidence like dat dat aint no proof what you bryin to give me squire what moro more proof does you want youse got my word the word of an oil mills benerman ge nerman that the tha pin were and you got the word of the fortune lady dat clat narcess wore were the thief I 1 like then ter you to tell me it dat aint proof enough a white busson much less or cr culled lady well she wes it aint it two ergin one well do law certainly am carlsom curl som no wonder do blessed postle paul says do lord have come to do way wid do de law but do way it seems to flourish J yure of la Is to blame in dla dis her berg Is about ter stroy de faith of do de da kingdom and mako make infidels and inger sols ot at every one of em cm go homo home and her a 0 it and may be will may be she will judge but I 1 misdoubts mis doubts doubis it it excuse my not manners and behavior in the ot of truth and hoss bass sense I 1 wants ter itaco it wid you it Is seldom and rare a man can git a woman to own to what he knows to bo be do de much less to fosa fess just what he bellewes bell ebes to be so BO and haves no proof on an it I 1 am mighty at cared squire dot dat you maye bo be a good judge of law but I 1 tell you now I 1 aint a much pen dence on yer ot of you wont have her rested well ill go home and sense her jest as you say and see what I 1 will see grumbling over the unreason of the law which rejected the word or of on an oil mill hand and a fortune teller lady combined as to convict a larcener he slowly strode out ot of tile the office in about an hour there was a commotion among the loafers at the door of this theater where farces comedies and tragedies are dally daily enacted without admission tees fees and the justice looking up tip saw a constable authoritatively leading up tip to the bar the oil mill hand and two deeply indignant females ono one light yellow and the other chocolate brown before the justice or the constable could say a word the oil mill hand commenced its ita all your fault squire youse to blame tor for the whole thing I 1 told you you was ignont of I 1 believed it then but fore foro cowd Gowd I 1 knows it now jest dat ignant of dat I 1 am almost forsted to bellabe you aint never had no mammy youse to blame ter fer de whole rucus dats data what you Is squire how you tor ter blamo blame well ill tell tel I 1 you I 1 goes home I 1 does docs jess jesa like you tells me dar I 1 find narcess er cr settin in a cheche hersea and a guz azlin of at beer it made me mad shore nough bough dat dat clat won lonians womans ians conscience aint a po pester ln her so I 1 go up to her squire just as you told me and I 1 says as you said ter fer me to may ay you lowdown low down berich bench legged catle of a sea cook you done stole my pin youse a thief ise got the squires own word ter fer it and what you reckon squire did dat woman countess corn tess fess not much but that honey babe called me ma a liar me judge I 1 would say a dern liar as she said it her owns Alf it if I 1 in cote now no roan man aint got no right to lot let a busson littler than him call him a lie taint right and besides it was same as calling you a liar squire ter for I 1 said what you told me so I 1 lambastes lam bastes dat audacious woman one on her jaw I 1 jus stand to have you call a lie to my face now what you reckon dat woman done take her chastisements ac co corill riLing ng to the alie law and the scriptures not much she was dat le let lct t to reason dat she fetches me one side aide the bald with the hatchet nancy she hears the racket from the kitchen and cornea comes a sailing in and lows if theres any plant ln of festes to be did in dat house she reckoned shed take a ban and from the way narcess yell im belled to apt able mus mils er cr took two hans bans als fl and haull skull and ats they has it while I 1 wipes off the blood fore it dries on mr belr and makes it hard ter for to comb just den in steps your cornstuble corna corn table stable tho I 1 done tole him we a hurtin nobody but jest bendin to family jutres he rests us all three and here we Is all through your fault all AH through yora ignance of I 1 ough tern to blame you tor for you did the best you knowel but its tough for a christian and his cook ladles ladies to bo be drug through the streets same as and bono bone rollers dollar fine each and costs costa of the cote breach of the peace well you may call it a breach of the peace or a peace ot of the breaches jus as youa a mind to but I 1 nominates it a squires pore judgment ol at I 1 does docs three dollars flue fine and twelve dollars costes just sen that cornstuble corn stable of yourn to the foreman of tho the mill and hell square him up tip come nancy como come long Nr narcess cess and you ter bo be a them wall eyes at 0 yourn at the squire ile he aint a stud shudyin study yin ln yer but just recollects miss aliss not to call a squire a lie ile ergin tor for that fine has jus the same as goolt two new dresses ofin your back goodby squire I 1 aint no wise think la hard bard of you but I 1 wants to tell you now ill never follow nary auther justice about the handlin handl ln ot of tiley they Is too ignont of the creatura 11 |