IT STOPPED AT CABBAGE.
living on Indiana-street, lately had occasion .to ask the '<^:.tMtiTt>f the patrol-man in that district, as * to how he should treat some boys who called him names as he passed a certain - ■ ooroer. " I wouldn't mind 'em," was the ,» -reply. " Jist what I reckoned on," said _ - the complainant. <' I had my mind made '* up to treat 'em' with proud disdain. But dir's a naybur o' mine who frows clubs at my dog,an' cusses my chill'en. Would you'also' come de proud disdain OTer him !" " Yes, I think so." "An -dar'g a- white man Hbin' round de co'ne.r ,who«Bay*'l stole his axe. I reckon that proud disdain will fix him if I keep - ■ ifc<np long enough;?" ' " It certainly will." Htm Willi'&in it amsettled dafc I dban' talk
back in none o' dese cases, but dar am one fing I want understood right heah an' now. j)e next ; time I aminjoyin' an ebenin' siesta on de door steps and a 61b cabbage hits me on de middle westbutton, dar won't be no proud disdain to be/ had ia any grocery fur a mile aroun'! . I'ae^gwine ;to riz up an' yell fur revenge IjhiV shout far blood, an' de ossifer who interferes wid me am gwine to be rendered unconscious fur 48 days!"— Detroit Free Press. . ' . .
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Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4420, 5 March 1883, Page 4
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216IT STOPPED AT CABBAGE. Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4420, 5 March 1883, Page 4
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