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Show Cause For Alarm It was a hot sultry afternoon and there on the station platform dozed a darkey. A traveling salesman who was waiting for his train noticed the fellow asleep in the sun and with his tongue hanging out of his mouth. He j took from his pocket a quinine cap-; sule and emptied the contents on the j tip of the darkey's tongue. He then I sauntered to the end of the platform J and upon returning found the dark-, ey having a terrible time and sur- rounded by a larg group of his own folks. ' One of his color came close to him and inquired, "Sam what on earth is the matter wi yo all anyhow?" "Oh ," wailed the darkey, "Use gwine to die. I'se gwine to die cause I done busted my gal! bladder." |