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DISAPPOINTED. Negroes, even more so than white people, perhaps, are given to counting chickens before they are hatched. A contemporary reports a laughable instance. ' Gus, a young coloured boy, grew confidential one evening. “ I’m goin’ to the cimitery next -Sunday, Miss Mary,” he said. “But, Gus, that is a long walk. Ton know it is more than four miles.” “ Oh, I’m not a-goin’ to walk. I m goin’ to ride.” “How is that, Gus F Has your father bought a carriage P” “ Haw ; but I’m goin’ in a kerndge to my uncle’s funeral.” All day Saturday Gus could talk of nothing but the coming festivities. To a young - “ darky ” a Sunday funeral is a great event. On Sunday I gave him a holiday, and on Monday expected a full account of the funeral, but Gus appeared with a melancholy face. In answer to my inquiry he said — “ I didn’t go, Miss Mary. He ain’t dead } r et.” The sick man recovered.
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Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 9, 27 May 1893, Page 10
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162Humour Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 9, 27 May 1893, Page 10
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