FACING DEATH.

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 933, 21 June 1877, Page 3

FACING DEATH.

{Detroit tree Press ) Brother Gardner was yesterday^"whitewashing the back end of an old house on Catharine street, when the staging gave way and he had a fall of about fifteen feet. He was senseless when picked up, but a man poured about a gallon of water down his back and brought him to. Mr Gardner thus explained matters to the reporters : ' Waal, I was up dar, an' dar was de house, an' dar was de' scaffold, an dar we all was. I was jess drawin' dat brush aroun' to kill when I felt a goneness. Seemed I was prancin' aroun' on de air, wid no chance to dig in my toes.' 'Why didn't you fall at once, and have the affair off your mind ! ' asked a policeman.

■ Why didn't I fall ? Why, sah, I was fallin' all de time. I went down 'bout fifty feet head tust, an' den I changed and went sideways, and den I struck on one foot and boaf ears. All dis time I was doin' some powerful thinkin', I was.' ' Did you think of oysters fried with crumbs ''.' asked a reporter. * Doan be talkin' dat way, boy. I 'numbered all my bad deeds while I was gwine down, an' J called out dat I would live a better life if dc shock didn't kill me '

In the group was a coloured man whose face brightened at these words, and he softly asked :

* Brudder Gardner, doan' you 'member de two dollars you borrowed o' me ?'

« I do.' 'Den pay it—han' it over. De shock didn't kill you, and now begin on dat better life.'

* Brudder Jones,' solemnly replied Gardner, «de shook didn't kill me dead, but befo' I pays out any money Ize gwiue to wait de result on my nervous tystem. I 'pears to t>e all right, but possumly I may be fatally injured, in some of de corners and not know it for a month. G' lang, Brudder Jones, an' doan' rob de cradle an' de grave!'

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