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Show MOT ALL A MISFORTUNE. Colored Man Lost His Leg but Settled Set-tled Long-Standing Argument. Visitor (to one-legged darky) DM you lose your leg In tho war uncle? Darky No, sab. I done lose dat talg In the llaptls' cause, salt. I war mlnlsterln' down in Carllny, and tuk a sinner down Inter ro rlbber ter 'neshlate 'lm Inter do clinch, an' 'stracted dat lalg fiom tho remains er my pusson. "Indeed! That was n sai misfortune." misfor-tune." "I wns in dat erplnlon myself at do time, sah; hut dar wuz one good V.ult comln' f'om do same. lilt settled n p'lnt dat my wife an' mo had differed 'bout fo' some time. She oilers 'lowed dero wnrn't nullln In do round worl dat I war good fo'; but after dat she war bleedgo' to own up dat I we, mighty good fish bait!" |