GWINE TO BE A LAWSUIT.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4448, 7 April 1883, Page 4

GWINE TO BE A LAWSUIT.

We w re sitting on the hotel steps at Franklin v Term., when a colored man came up' And< asked the' time of day;' A'; gentleman whom everybody addressed as Major gave* the Hour,- arid added i^ '■ f; i :i} t ' \' Say, Moses, I want a good, stout man fp move some fencing for me to-morrow." " Couldn't'do it, 'sah; I'ze got to 'tend dat inters'lawsuit to morreri" "Well, next day?" ' ; ''■'•' *' Next day the old man Brown has his lawsuit.": < i „---- '-'.■' ■ ' >• Then say Thursday ?" - " Couldnydo it, sab. Dats de day Mrs Simpson* aim to be tried for frowin' an j« at Elder Barow." " !"Wer in', i#iir i y(ra lligre le lt6"be on hand Friday P" •«•'•'? -' >-'•<.-■ .- . "No, sah. On Friday I'ze gwine seben miles out to 'tond a lawsuit befo' Squar' Marshall." . ■ ■ > " Can you dome Saturday ?" " Beckon not, 'Major.'' More'n likely de Taylor hog-killin' case will come off Saturday." . , "" " See herej Moses,"' Ssaid the! Major as he drppppd, his jfeet ;and Jeaned forward, " can you spare me auy p,ne day next \\ Jweek P" "'■" ; ! 1 " Can'fc 'promise;for sartin, sah,- kase j some of dese lawsuits may be disjourned ! ober, you know:.". 1' > i '■'■■'>. . -i | He was only a fair sample, of the race. I Next day, Ifs' I'rbdel out dri the SpVingfield pike, It-met-*'five,? slashing t fellows walking at _i gairipf six" miles an hour. After dividing"'* 'plug? of tobacco among them, I asked, -■■- "Going to town?" - "Ye«r«ah." • •-■, ■ , -v. •'Circus co|i)infir in to day ?" '■• "Reckon^ot, Bah*' but dar's gwine to [be a lawsuitf ,an' we'g pushin' right 'long fur front seats."—Detroit Free Press.