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Show LANDLORD WANTED TOO MUCH Under the Circumstances, Few Men Could Have Been Expected to Carry Out Threat. "Sir," said a colored man who entered en-tered a police station, "I came here to tell you dat I was g ine to suicide." "For what reason?" asked the sergeant ser-geant at the desk. "Bekase tlar was no mo' Joys at my house. Am it agin de law to jump Into de river?" "Xo, not" exactly," was the reply. "But if you get out again that is against the law. and you also get very wet, and apt to catch cold oer it. You had best find some empty old house and shoot yourself." "Yes, sir, dat am de way," answered the colored man. He went out to return in an hour to say : "You see, I didn't suicide arter all. I found de empty house and also found de landlord dar, and he. wanted .$7." a month rent an' .flO extra fur ho!din' an inquest." |