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Show NOT ALL A MISFORTUNE. Colored Man Lost His Leg but Settled Set-tled Long-Standing Argument. Visitor (to nno-Iegged darky) Did yon loso your leg in tho war.uncle7 Darky No, sah, I dono loso dat lalg In the Baptls' causo, sah. I w?r mlnlsterln' down In Carllny, and tuk a sinner down Inter ro rlbber ter 'ncshlate 'im Inter de clutch, an' 'stracted dat lalg from the remains or my pusson. "Indeed! That was a sad misfortune." misfor-tune." "I was In dat erplnlon myself at do time, sah; but dar wuz one good V.ult comln' font do same. Hit settled a p'lnt dat my wife an' me had differed 'botit fo' somo tlmo. She alters 'lowed doro warn't nuffln In de round worl dat I war good to'; but after dat sho war bleedgu' to own up dat I wuz mighty good fish bait!" |