Show I A BORN DETECTIVE I 1 A DetroitNegro Who Cleverly Cap lured a Watermelon Thief A colored man came out of an alley on I Michigan avenue yesterday and inquired i of the grocer on the corner Say boss has you had a water I mellyon stole away today I Why I declare i some one hasnt stolen a big one which laid on the end of the shelf exclaimed the grocer Did you see a white man and a culld feller hangin round yer Come to think of it I did i Dem ar de chaps what stole lat mel I I yonDid I Did you see them 7 asked the grocer Nebber did sah Then how do you know 7 I The colored man then took him down j j the alley and showed him two heaps of melon rinds and exclaimed I I de mellyon wasntdun stole nobody j I would come in heah to eat it Dat pile of rinds haint halfgnawed Dats just de way white folks eat em De odder pile am gnawed right down to the bark Dats de work of a culld man an doan you forgit it Down dar am a rind all alone De chaps got scart an rund away afore r I dey were dun i Say maybe you are sharp enough to j catch em said the grocer Well I dunno was the reply but in the course of half an hour the man brought in a hangdog looking African and turned him over with the remark r re-mark I markleahs one of em but the odder has skipped How do von know that this fellow is guiltyKase Kase I dun looked for a darkey wid a mellyon seed on his shir bosom an heah he am lies dun guilty and has got To cents to settle wid ye The grocer says hell have that man on the detective force or break a leg Del oil Free Press |