“ONLY US CHICKENS.”
The same thing that prompts one to say “ yes ” in answer to the query, “ Are you asleep ?” may have influenced the negro in the following story from New York Life:— It was a dark night, and the owner of the chicken coop, gun in hand, was investigating certain suspicious noises he had heard. “ Who’s in there?" he called at the open window. Erastus, inside, replied softly and reassuringly, "Ain’t nobody heah ’cep’in’ us chickens.”
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 453, 3 April 1909, Page 3
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77“ONLY US CHICKENS.” Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 453, 3 April 1909, Page 3
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