HIS LITTLE GROCERY.
He "was a clean-looking colored man of advanced age, and when he entered a wholesale house on A r esey-street, one of the clerks politely informed him that the situation of porter was already filled. "Does I look like a man who'd be regarded as a porter 1 " asked the stranger.' " Ah ! excuse me." " You is discused, sah. Whar is de foreman ! Over dar, eh 1 No, sir, I don't want to be porter. I'ze one ob de sober men ob Newark, and Ize here on 'portant business." He wanted goods. There were lots of goods there, and it was very easy to suit him as to price, but he had no money and no recommendations. "De pay is sure in sixty days," he urged. " But you can give no security." " What you want ob security 1 Won't do goods be dai*! "" > "You may have sold them." "Den won't the money be dar, counted out on de counter ! And if the money ain't dar 1 And if I ain't dar, and if de ole woman's done, and he 'children can't be found, can't I be frowd into bankruptcy, and be all smashed ur> 1 " He didn't get the goods.
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Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 100, 16 August 1876, Page 2
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202HIS LITTLE GROCERY. Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 100, 16 August 1876, Page 2
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