THE DISADVANTAGE OF A LARGE FAMILY.
"How many children have yon, Ike?" Btkedcan-Arkansaw-gentleman of a negro acquaintance "Boss, Idecl-uV I doan' know." "How long-hare you been married ?" 11 Dcr almanac says twenty years,' but hanged ef it doan' seem like a hundred to me." " And you doa't know how many children yon have ?" "No sab, 'cisc I neber was much on gography. But ter gin yer a idee ob de. member, I'll.tell yer what's a fack. Two loat chiltun cotne ter my house some time ago, and baDged ef de wan'tdar six we<ska 'fore I diskivered dat dar was apy strays in the boose. I wouldn't hab foW it out den but for de sbarpDens ob my wife. She was talkin' ter de cbilluo one day, when, luddenly lookin' at a boy, about tbe ornerest chile I eber seed, she gajd: 'Dan!' 'My name*ain't Dan,' said de chile. 'Whatis yer name,den ?' axed my wife. ' Jasen,'.replied de boy. Ben my wife she sorter scratched her head an' studied awhile, nn' turnin' ter me axed l ef we bad eber named a bey Jaeec ' Hanged if I know,', says I. ' Yerseif keeps de books ob dis 'stablisbment.' Well, aah, de aarcamstaDce aioused suspicionment, an' we begau ter search aroun' finally findin' dat two ob my chillun belonged ter a neighbour. My wife declare dat she doan' know when dcy jumped ober de fence an* got inter de house, an, hanged ef does." ; :■■-.■,-. . .„. ■-;■. .. . ■ y •
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Thames Star, Volume XVII, Issue 5256, 21 November 1885, Page 4
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241THE DISADVANTAGE OF A LARGE FAMILY. Thames Star, Volume XVII, Issue 5256, 21 November 1885, Page 4
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