PRESERVING HIS OWN PROPERTY.
A. negro was standing in a street in Porto Bico, where, as is well known, slavery still flourishes, when a storm broke over the town, the rain descending '.in torrents/ Sambo hastily /pulled; off his hat, and did his best to' protect it from the downpour. The more terrific it became, the greater efforts did he make topreserve his: lmt, while his curly locks were saturated like a sponge. " Why didn't you put on a hat, Sambo"?" You would keop your head dry," observed a passer-by. « Not such a fool, s'ah, J ' replied the nigger grinning, " Head heloDß to masa; bat to Sambo!"
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1025, 17 March 1882, Page 2
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107PRESERVING HIS OWN PROPERTY. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1025, 17 March 1882, Page 2
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