HARD CHEESE
Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan, the great financial magnate, who, to avoid the New York reporters, recently boarded a liner by one of the cargo hatches and climbed over piles of baggage, tells a good story of the American slave-owning days. It goes like this: "A planter boasted to a storekeeper that he had a nigger with the hardest human skull in creation, and offered to ■bet that the latter would, with a running butt, smash the hardest cheese thai the other had in his store. "The storekeeper promptly accepted the wager, but said that he wasn't going to have his cheese spoiled for eating by blackie's head, and so would put it into a bag before letting him try. "Instead of the cheese, however, he slipped in a grindstone, and then stood the bag on a low shelf at the end of the room. "The negro stooped his head, took a run, and, coming full tilt against the
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 207, 10 December 1910, Page 10
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160HARD CHEESE Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 207, 10 December 1910, Page 10
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