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Show Mighty Handy. :Some negroes are insatiable "jiners," and their favorite organizations organiza-tions are those wnich assure an ostentatious os-tentatious funeral. A mistress was remonstrating with her servant about belonging to one of them. "Bonnibel, don't you think it is mighty foolish to pay the 'Friends and True Mourners' society' twenty-five twenty-five cents every month?" "Naw'm, Miss Ma'y, I don't. You see, dee ain't like some of de s'cieties; dee acts liberal, and don't skimp on nothin'. Dee gives you de finest kind of coffin, en makes a way for ev'ry-body ev'ry-body to git to your burial. En den, 'sides dat, dee gives you thirty dollars dol-lars at the grave, en you know thirty dollars comes in mighty handy." |