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Show HIS DESTINATION NO OBJECT As Example of Perfect Freedom From Care, Colored Boy Would Be Hard to Beat. Sitting in the rear end of a day coach on a jerkwater road in Texas, my end of the car being a smoker for white passengers and Hie front end being reserved for the accommodation accommoda-tion of colored persons, I looking through the open door of the dividing partition saw the conductor stop in the aisle alongside a half-grown negro boy who had boarded the coach at a flag station. "I ain't got no ticket, cap'n," I heard the darky say. So saying, he hauled a handful of silver dollars out of a pocket and extended the hand, its palm covered with coins. "Well, then, where do you want to go?" asked the conductor. "Cap'n, it don't make no difference," quoth the hoy. ".Tes' you tells me, please, sah, when dis yore money is done ridden up an' den I'll git off effen I Ink de looks of de place, an' effen I don't lak It I'll give you some mo' money an' keep on a-ridin'." Irvin S. Cobb In the Saturday Evening Post. |