ON THE SAFE SIDE.
A Michigander, who was riding along the highway near Charlestown, Virginia, a few days ago, came across a negro who was grubbing out a stump near the meadow fence, and after a, few questions about farm products the wolverine asked :— ‘ What do you get for taking that •tump out?, * Jist fifty cents,’ was the reply. ‘ How long have you been working at it ?’ * Wall, nigh ’bout a week, I reckon. ‘And how much longer will it take ? ‘Wall, I wont do it afore Friday.’ ‘Why ?’ ‘Well, heah am de pint. If I finish it to-morrow an’ git my money, I’ll be bound to drap down to Hailtown an’ bet on a hoss race and lose it all. Ef I wait till Friday I kin hab de means of gwine inter de circus at Charlestown. I know my weakness’ boss, an’ so I’ze gwine to sot heah an’ dig a little an’ chop ofi de las’ root when I heah de circus he’ns blowin’ on top de red skulehouse bell.’
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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1030, 31 January 1882, Page 4
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173ON THE SAFE SIDE. Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1030, 31 January 1882, Page 4
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