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Show Mighty Handy. Somo negroes aro Insatiable "Jlners," and their favorito organizations organiza-tions nro thoso which assuro an ostentatious os-tentatious funeral. A mistress wns remonstrating with her servnnt nbout belonging to ono of them. "Ilonnibcl, don't you think it is mighty foolish to pay tho 'Friends nnd Truo Mourners' society' twenty-flvo twenty-flvo cents every month?" "Naw'm, Miss Ma'y, I don't. You see, dee ain't llko some of dos'clctlcs; deo acts liberal, nnd don't skimp on nothln'. Deo gives you do finest kind of colli n, en makes n way for ov'ry-body ov'ry-body to git to your burial. En den, 'sides dnt, deo gives you thirty dollars dol-lars ut tho grave, en you know thirty dollars comes In mighty handy." |