Cuff's Condescension.
Many years American militia c iiicers did not appear to rank very high in the States, as the following will show. 'Cuff/ said one of the digmUuies above named to a negro at his bide, as he prepared to swallow his nir.th tumbler — •Cuff, you're a good honest fellow, and I like to compliment a man that's led an honest life, even if be is a black. You shall take a glass of something with me, Cuff.' ' Well, cap'en/ says Cuff, wiping his mouth on his cont-^leeve, ' I'se l/erry dry, so I won't be ugly about it. Some niggers is too proud to drink with a milishy ossifer 3 ''but I tink a milishy osslfej, whe.n he'§,spb,er, is just as good as a' 'nigger— e s spe"cMaify if de nigger's
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Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 250, 28 March 1888, Page 9
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132Cuff's Condescension. Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 250, 28 March 1888, Page 9
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