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Show HAD TO BACK UP THE BOSS And Really, When You Come to Think of It, Rastus May Have Been Telling the Truth. They were talking about being placed iu difficult positions the other afternoon, when Congressman Frank Guernsey of Maine told of the unenviable unen-viable experience of a party named Kastus. Rasti.s and the man he worked for were in the corner grocery store one night, the congressman said, and the. topic turned to deer shooting. The employer of Rastus declared he had shot a buck some time previously, the ball going through the left hind foot and landing in the head just below be-low tho ear. Naturally the crowd laughed derisively. "You may laugh all you please," declared de-clared the man, holding his ground, "but I can prove it by Rastus, there, who was shooting with me! Rastus, didn't I hit that buck in tho left hind foot and back of the ear at the same time?" "Yo' shuah did, boss," answered Rastus, with no hesitation to speak of. "Yo' Bee it war dis way, gen'men; jes' as de boss go to shoot, de buck raise bis hind foot to scratch his left car, an' dat's how it happened." |