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Show With All That Was In Him. Mose was a hodcarrier, black as tar, bandy-legged and glad of it. He was relating to some white men on the rear of a car the results of a fight he recently re-cently had indulged in. "Dat nigger tole me to keep muh han's offen dat pile of sewer pipe," he said, "but de boss done tole me to fetch 'em in, 'an I suttiniy were gonter fetch 'em. So de big coon ups and takes hoi' of muh ahm and says, 'nig-gah, 'nig-gah, beat it,' he eays." "Did you beat it?" came sympathetically sympathet-ically from a listener. "Did Ah beat it? Co'se Ah didn'. Ah Jes' rapped dat coon on de Jaw." "Did you hit him hard?" was another an-other desultory question from the white men. "Hit 'im ha'hd? Man, I jes' nacher-Ty nacher-Ty put everything in dat lick Gawd A'mighty evah did gimme." It was agreed that It was "some" blow. |