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Show I No Possible Danger From That Cemetery Eugene Field while on one of his lecturing tours entered Philadelphia. There was some delay at the bridge over the Sehuyklll river, and the hu- niorlst's attention was attracted by the turbid. colTee-colored stream flow ing underneath. He asked the colored porter: "Don't you people get your drinking weter from this strearar I ' "Yasslr Ain't got no yuther place ft ' t0 ' 't frum, cept the Delaweah, j Tasslr!" I "1 "hould think," said the humorist. I j "that you would be afraid to drink f 8"ch water; especially as the seepage II y from that cemetery I see on the hill 1 1 roust drain directly Into the river and 1 1 pollute It." I I "1 reckon yo' all doan know Phlla- delphy ve'y well, sah, aw you'd know j dafa Lau'el mil cemete'yT said the i son of Ham. ' ",. "Well, what of that?" asked Field. "Dot wattnh doan' hu't us Phlla-delplilans Phlla-delplilans none, Bah." replied the na-H na-H tlve son. "W'y mos' all of de folkses 4 bu'Ied theah aw fom ouah ve'y best 'J, . r fam'lles." |