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Show The Injured One. ' A gentleman owning a sugar estate la Domerara went out to visit It for the first time. Tho day after his arrival ar-rival he atood watching the punts bringing tho cano homo. A young negro boy who was driving tho mules, wishing to Increaso tho speed of theso, struck ono of thorn with his whip. Tho mule - promptly responded by launching out with his heels and dealt tho boy a kick on tho head which stretched him on tho ground, where ho lay rubbing his woolly pato on the pot where the kick had been received. re-ceived. "Is ho hurt? Is ho hurt?" cried tho planter In alarm. A full-grown negro, hearing the expressions of concern, aprang forward hastily nnd, raising tho mulo'a heels, shouted out: "No, boss! That mulo him walk tend ah fo' a day or two, but him no' hurt." |