Show BUT WAS IT THE THE SAME SAM SAMM M MELON Paper C Carried by Darky Amounted Almost to Perpetual Permit A negro Just loves a wat watermelon said Representative Johnson of South C Carolina Strange too that when a aS S policeman sees a negro with a melon at atan an unreasonable hour houi ho he has it right down that the darky has stolen that watermelon I heard a story about a policeman who met a negro in tho early hours of the morning and he had a big melon on his shoulder 4 I I 1 see you have a melon there Yes sah answered the darky Tse lse got er melon but Ise fixed fer you sah and pulling out a paper ho he handed It to the officer who read This bearer of this l Is O. O K lie He paid me mo ten teu cents for the melon and he heIs heIs heis is a pillar in the church James Elder You are fixed said the officer 4 Dats what I lowed answered the I negro and he moved on Washing Washington ton Herald on I S |