• Uncle,’ said a little rascal to his worthy relative, * that man over there wants to see you.’ ‘What does he want?’ ‘ Dunno; didn’t ask him.’ So uncle sauntered over to where the stranger sat, and said, ‘ Did yon ask for mo, sir ?' ‘No, sir.’ ‘I bog pardon but I was told by that young man over there that you wanted to see me.’ ‘So I do ; so I do. I've been blind these ten years, and I wip* see anybody.’ IS;.. ,jng ago Jim Webster was driving a buggy rapidly down Austin avenue, Detroit, when he knocked down and ran over old Uncle Mess, but, as if by a miracle, the old man was nit injured in the least. ‘lsn't hcah, Jim,’ naid Mose, ‘yon had better o» mere keerful.’ * I’se gwiue ter br, Uncle Mose, jest so soon ss I has a bnggy ob my own tar drive. Dis heab turnout don't belong to me.’
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Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2533, 22 May 1882, Page 3
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156Page 3 Advertisements Column 2 Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2533, 22 May 1882, Page 3
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