MISTAKEN KINDNESS.
This sometimes produces embarrassments, as was the case in Houston, Texas, the other day. A lady fainted suddenly in a street car in which chanced to be an amiable darkey carrying a huge water melon. Seeing the demands of the case, the darkey acted promptly His water melon had been on ice all day, and he knew it. Without a moment’s he broke the fruit in two, and clapped one portion of it upon the lady’s head. The cooling application was just the thing. The lady recovered consciousness promptly, and if she failed to thank the darkey her besmeared condition may have had something to do with it. The darkey didn’t mind the neglect, though smiling benignantly he sat still, gnawing away at the remaining half of his melon and proud in the consciousness of having done a good deed. And it was a good deed so far as intentions went. Than to divide his water melon there is no greater proof of self-denial in the fifteenth amendment.
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Globe, Volume IV, Issue 415, 11 October 1875, Page 4
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