WHERE HE MISSED IT.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2261, 1 July 1881, Page 3

WHERE HE MISSED IT.

A Woodward avenue merchant, who has for two or three years past employed an ancient darkey to do odd chores about the store, was yesterday asked for a few minutes' private conversation, and when the request had been, granted the old man began : " I wanted to ax fur a leef Is informashun. Las' nite when I was gwine home I met ole Ebenezcr Wright, one of de pillars in our church. He's been a little aigewise to me eber since de las' donashun'parly, but I nebber saw a man melt down as he did. He called me an agitator. What does dat xi ean ? I know it's sunthin' good, but I can't ';iactlygit de full meanin'." " Why he meant that you were kicking up a fuss." " Did he ? Fo' de L»wd but I took it de odder way! Den he said I war' a truckling. Did dat mean I owned truoks ?" "It meant that you truokled. You've seen a dog skulk behind his master after he ha* been kicked, haven't you?" "In course I have. Did he roilcy mean dat ? De old woman an' I couldn't make it out, but we fought it mus' be sunthin' sweet. Den he remarked that I war' a bigot. Was dat abuse?" " I should say so." " Did he mean bad when he called me a fawnin* sickerphant and a fossilised corruptionist?" "He certainly did. Many men have knocked down for saying less." "Fo' de Lawd ! but how ye talk! Am it possible dat I stood dar an' took dat all in an* smiled an' laffed an' actually asked de ole man to etep in some whar ! an' have a glass of cider ? Why, sah, if I'd had de slightest hint of what he meant, I'd have orushed him to pulp in two minits, sah—de worst lookin' pulp yon ever sot eyes on! Lawd, sah, but what achance I did miss !" —" Detroit Free Press.'*