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Show Too Good to Work. A tall ancestral clock stood upon the mantelpiece in a Southern home, faithful to Its duty. It had run uninterruptedly unin-terruptedly for years. On a holiday occasion the maid, an old-time negro, decorating the house with holly nnd mistletoe, furnished the clock with a particularly brilliant ureal h, and as she said, dressed It up for the occasion. occa-sion. The next morning when she came to work-, the faithful old clock had stopped. She stood before it, arms akimbo, and apostrophized It: "I knowed you was going to stop, clock ! You is just like a nigger no sooner 'n you gets all dressed up, you think you is too good to work." |