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Show ' WHY GROCER3 GO CRAZY A small pickaninny heaved a Jug over the counter to the grocer. "Mammy wants or dime's wuth er 'lasses," sho announced. Knowing the family ways, tho grocer gro-cer was Inqulsltlvo. "Got yo' dime with you Sally?" ho OBkod. "Yas suh." Thereupon the grocer went below to the molasses barrel In tho cellar. It was a cold day, and the stream ran slowly from the spigot, but ho whistled whis-tled and stamped about for ten minutes min-utes to keep up his temperature as well as his courage. At last tho Jug was filled and his cold and lonely vigil ended. He returned and hoaved tho Jug back over the counter. "Lemme have yo' dime, Sally," hd said. Sally's eyes grow white and wldo. "Lawsa mussy!" sho exclaimed, "If mammy ain't gone an' put dat dlmo In do bottom or dat Jug." New Yorlc Evening Post. t |