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Show Short of Help. It seemed that when Kastus and Sam died they took different routes; so when the latter got to heaven he j called Ifastus on the phone. "Kastus," he said, "bow yo' like It I down thar?" "Oh, boy ! Dis here am some place," , replied Rast.us. "All we has tor do is J to wear a red suit wid horns, an' cbep-now cbep-now an' den shovel some coal ojr'de fire. We don't work no' more dan two hours out ob de twenty-four down here. But tell me, Sam, how is it with . you up yonder?" "Mali goodness! We has to git up at To' o'clock in the mawnin'. an' gathah in de stalls ; den we has to haul in de moon and hang out de sun. Den we has ter roll de clouds aroun' all day long." "But, Sam, how come it y' has ter work so hard?" "Well, to tell de truf, Rastus, we's kin' o' short on help up here." |