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Show Where Ha Waa Queer. The negro, on occasions, display! a fine discrimination In tha choice of words. 1 "Who's the bent whlte-washof In town?" Inquired the new realdent. "Ale Hall aaa a bo nd a llst wloj A whitewash brush, ash." answered the colored patriarch eloquently. "Well, tell him to come and whitewash white-wash my chicken house tomorrow." I'ncle Jacob shook hla bead dubiously. dubi-ously. "Ah don' believe, aah, ah'd engage Ale Hall to whltewaah A chicken house, aah " "Why, didn't you aay ha waa a food whltewaaherT" "Yea, aah, a powe'ful good white-washer, white-washer, aah; but nilghly queer about a chicken house, aah, nilghly queerl" Muck's National Monthly. |