Ogden Daily Standard | 1916-01-11 | Page 4 | Black Snake

BLACK SNAKE Mrs Morgan had a colored maid named Sarah. One Sunday after noon the mistress saw Sarah's love i leaving the house in a suit of white flannel. A llttlo later, when the maid appeared, Mrs. Morgan said: "Sarah, that beau of yours should never wear white. He is very black and white clothes make him appear all the blacker. Why don't you elve him a hint?" "Why Mis' Morgan," said Sarah, with animation, "I done give him et lot ob hints, but he jes' natterly rn't got no sense an' he didn't take em. "Probably you didn't make the hints strong enough," said the mistress. mis-tress. "Well, no'm, dat's jest what I think myself," agreed Sarah, reflectively; I don t believe I did, I jest loks at mm right hard, an' says; 'Niggah yo' sho' do look like a black snake crawhn' out ob cream, vou do'' rhet's jes' all I says to .him, Min' Morgan." Everybody's. oo-