OCR Text |
Show Ventriloquist's Good Joke. A small negro boy was going along ! the street carrying a turtle by the tail, when a ventriloquist standing j near seemed to make it say: "Where j is you-all goin' with me?" The little i negro heard the question, and looked around with astonishment, but not be- I ing entirely satisfied as to where the voice came from, walked on. Again the ventriloquist said: "I say, where is you-all takin' me?" This time the boy was satisfied that the turtle had ! . been gifted with a miraculous power of speech, and instantly dropped it on j the sidewalk in consternation, exclaiming: ex-claiming: "1 isn't a-takin' you-all no-whar. no-whar. I has done dropped you!" |