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Show BILL IVfALONE. ; I An aged negro was "employed as I handy man around a suburban home. Being unable to read or write, ho tjtS , asked the lady of the house to write a letter for him once a month at his dictation to a Virginia relative. With each letter, as he instructed, a five-dollar five-dollar bill taken from his wages was , inclosed for "Bill Malone." Finally the mistress' curiosity impelled im-pelled hor to ask- "Undo Moses, who is this Bill Malone you send ?5 to every month? Is ho a colored man?" "No. Miss Lucy; he ain't no cullud man," answered the old man evasively. 'Then he must be a white man, and it seems odd." ! ' "No. 'Scuse me, Miss Lucy; dat's sv all right. Ho ain't no cullud man, an' he ain't no w'ite man. Ho ain't no man at all. He's jlst bill-m-loan association." asso-ciation." Atlanta Journal. |