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Show A Lightning Episode. A colored man, about 40 years of age, entered police headquarters yesterday yes-terday with bis head tied up and said j to the sergeant: "Boss, I want your opinyun. Look at dig head an' tell me what you think of it." "I think somebody gave you a pretty good whack with a club " replied the officer. "Was it a club?" "It was a weapon of some sort." j "Wasn't I hit by lightning?" "Lightning? No." j "Wasn't hit by lightning las' nite?" j "How could you be, when there was I no thunder storm last night?" j " 'Zactly 'zactly. Dat's all." i "How did you get it?" "Woke up dis inawnin' wid de ole woman stand in' ober de bed. She laid it on to de lightmn', but de mo' I think de mo' 1 didn't believe it l'ze suali now." "And you"' "Well, l'ze gwine home to make de i biggest thunder sto'iu you eber heard tell of. An' ii do lightnin' doan' strike i mighty el us to my house at least a j dozen times den I won't say a word I when de patrol wagincomesl" Detroit Free Press. |