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Show Wanted to Know f-e Culprit. The following story whs told recently recent-ly by Austin Hahu-t-. to a party of friends lie entertained ;.t luncheon: "Down in a little Florida town two negro families live in theiiUes aliout a stone's throw apart. They obtain their drinking wat-rr Iron, a shallow open well located midway between tbe two houses. A fence which separates the two yards is built tip to the well on both sides. Every evening alter her day's work it dune, it is the custom cus-tom of one of the negro mammies to pick up buckets and go to the well for water. One day the owner of the property moved the fence back about ten feet from where it originally stood. That evening when Eiiza started out with her pail she fixed her eye on the fence and made straight for it. Walking Walk-ing hurriedly along the beaten path, she plunged into tbe shallow well with a splash. Her screams brought immediate im-mediate assistance, and as she c.imb-ed c.imb-ed out and spied tbe fence t-en feet away she indignantly exclaimed: "'Now, who done moved dat well?'" |