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Show ACCEPTING NO MORE FAVORS Negro's Somewhat Peculiar Reason for Refusing to Act as Pallbearer Pall-bearer Any More. In Alabama, a negro team-driver came home one night and found his wife highly agitated. "Jeff." she said, "yon know dat Asa Roger's wife Sallie is dead. Ain't you goin' to be a pallbearer at de fun'r'l?" "No, I aint," answered Jeff, with unusual positiveness. "You ain't? Well, wasn't you a pallbearer pall-bearer at de fun'r'l of his second wife, Melissa?" "Sho I wuz. But dat ain't " "En wuzn't you a pallbearer at de fun'r'l of his first wife. Mandy? Wluit you mean, you ain't goin' act dis time?" "Liza," he said, "suttinly I wuz a pallbearer at dem fun'r'ls, en I done de best I could, but I'm tellin' you now I ain't acccptin' no mo' favors from nobody whut I can't return." London Tit-Bits. |