Show familiar to him judge clayton of alabama tells of a case in a court of that state in which the first witness called was an aged colored man before he was sworn the presiding magistrate directed that the usual question be put to the follow do you know tile the nature of an oath tile the old colored man shifted himself from one toot foot to the other before replying A sly grin crept into his face well bedge said he 1 I cant say how wid mos moa folks but yo lionell lio noli noll I 1 reckon its sorter nature wid me |