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Show ENDED IN CHILDISH TRAGEDY. Fate of Two Pickaninnies Who Went on a Cruise. Afloat on tho bounding wave In a washtub two pickaninnies went cruising cruis-ing Thursday, says the Houston Chronicle. They sailed until they were rescued, and with that event camo a rainwater bath. White men pulled them to the shore to leave them gurgling gur-gling In the arms of two black mammies. mam-mies. There were no signals of distress flying fly-ing ns tho two babies in a tub floated swiftly down White Oak bayou. The current was running like a mill race, but the tub was properly balanced for the. ride. As It emerged from the jungle Into tho ship channel the npparltlon inspired in-spired immediate action Straightway into the brimming tide plunged man after man. They swam strongly for tho tub and tipped it over. Into the turgid stream fell a pair to draw to. With difficulty thoy wero flshed from the water, screaming lustily for their "ship," continuing like a derelict on down tho stream. Meanwhlto two buxom colored women, wom-en, mothers of the black babies, had appeared. Gathering tho drenched and crying pickaninnies in their arms they marched away to their cabins. The cruise stnrted In play about tho water edge nnd ended in n woodshed, when, with wet clothes stretched tight, every spat stung fiercely and walls sounded over the Inundated bayou flats. |