Show 11 T it took nine negro farm hands to round up startled literary man in the days when col charles ed wards former secretary of 0 tho the demo cratic congressional campaign committee was vaa traveling for a commer corinner corn caal concern he reached a little south ern town on one occasion when the only hotel there was crowded ed wards insisted he be had to have a room for the night and the clerk finally told him that there was one room loom he could share chare with another man but he concluded have to sleep in th thy thi i same rom bed with him agreed to this and as it was waa late at night might went to the room he thought had been assigned t to 0 him he hastily prepared for bed and quietly lay down beside his bed fellow later in the night he awoke and ant saw gaw a man sitting at the loot foot of 0 the bed reading by the light of a candle great rest he heavens avenal exclaimed ed wards sitting up are you going to put a third fellow into this bed without a word ord but with a ter rifled expression on his face ace the man who had been reading dived through the window carrying with A ith him most of 0 the window sash edwards looked around and saw raw that the man he be had been sleeping with was wag a corpse he had gotten into the wrong room it took nine negro farm banda says edwards kd wards in ending the story etory to round up that literary fellow ellow for breakfast in the morning |