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Show HIS DESTINATION NO OBJECT s Example of Perfect Freedom From Care, Colored Boy Would Be Hard to Beat. Sitting in the rear end of a day poach on a Jerkwater road in Texas, my end of the car heine; a smoker for white passengers and the front end heine; resened for the aceoinnioda-tion aceoinnioda-tion of colored persons, I looking lhroui:li the open door of the dividing part il ion saw the conductor stop ill the aisle alongside a half-grown negro hoy who had hoarded the coach at a flag .station. "I ain't got no ticket, cap'n," I heard the darky say. So saying, he hauled a handful of silver dollars out of a pocket nnd extended the hand, its palm covered with coins. "Well, then, where do you want to go?" asked the conductor. "Cap'n. it don't make no difference." rpinth the hoy. ",Tes' you tells me. please, sail, when (lis yere money is done ridden up an' den I'll git off effen I Ink de looks of de place, an' effen I don't Ink It I'll give you some 1110' money an' keep on n-ridin'." Irvin S. Cohh in the Saturday Kvening Tost. |