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Show NO STEADY JOB FOR HIM Theophilus Had Good Reason for Giving Giv-ing Up Banjo Playing Threatened Threat-ened With Awful Disaster. A southern man tells of a darky named Theophilus Baxter, known as "the champion banjo player of Alabama." Ala-bama." Wishing to afford a northern friend an example of real darky music, a Mobile woman went to Baxter's house, with a view to enlisting his services at a musical function. She found his wife Instead. "Very sorry, missy," said Baxter's spouse, "but Theophilus he ain't play-in' play-in' de banjo any more. He jest puts in all his time fishin' now." "What led him to give up his playing?" play-ing?" asked the disappointed caller. "Has he got religion?" "No, missy, he ain't got religion, but he's done got skeered." "Scared? Of what?" "Of dat minstrel show, honey. De boss learns dat my ole man kin play, an' he offers him a stlddy job doin' it. Yassum, an' it skeered Theophilus so bad dat he quit banjo playin' right away." Philadelphia Ledger. |