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Show SAW THING IN RIGHT LIGHT Old Mose Taylor Undoubtedly Had the Situation Sized Up, but Who Got the Dime? "At the end of a Georgia negro meeting." says an Atlanta man, "it was decided to take up a collection for charity. The chairman passed the hat himself. He dropped a dime in it for a nest-egg. Every right hand encountered encoun-tered that bat, and yet, at the end, when the chairman turned the bat over and shook it, not so much as his own contribution dropped out. " 'Fo' de land's sake 1" be cried. 'I has even lost de dime I started with!' "All the rows of dusky faces looked puzzled. Who was the lucky man? Finally the venerable Mose Taylor summed up the situation. " 'Gentlemen,' be said solemnly, rising ris-ing from his seat, 'der 'pears to be a great moral lesson round beah some-wheah some-wheah !' '' Pittsburgh Dispatch. |