NOT OLD AGE
An Alabama man, meeting an old darkey formerly in hU service, put to him the usual question : ' Well, Jed, how are you to-day?' 'Tol'able, sah, tol'able!' cautiously replied Jed. ' Ah'd be all right, sah, if it want for do rheumatism in ma right laig.' ' Ah, well, Jed, we mustn't complain,' said the questioner. ' We're all getting old, and old age does not come alone.'
' Old age, sah !' was the indignant protestation of Jed. ' Old age ain't got nothin' to do wid it, sah. Heah's ma other laig jest as old, an' dats sound an' soople as kin be!'
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New Zealand Tablet, 24 September 1908, Page 38
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101NOT OLD AGE New Zealand Tablet, 24 September 1908, Page 38
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