We want no buts. You must renew the license or be fined. You know that it
expired January 1, don’t you?
Yessah; so did de dog, sah.
* * * * *
That’s a nice-looking dog, remarked the kindly old gentleman, who takes
an interest in everything.
Yes, suh. He looks all right, replied the colored man who was leading him
with a piece of rope.
He looks like a pointer.
Yes, suh. Dat’s what he look like. But dat ain’ what he is. He’s a
disappointer.
* * * * *
A colored parson, calling upon one of his flock, found the object of his
visit out in the back yard working among his hen-coops. He noticed with
surprise that there were no chickens.
Why, Brudder Brown, he asked, whar’re all yo’ chickens?
Huh, grunted Brother Brown, without looking up, some fool nigger lef de
do’ open and dey all went home.
* * * * *
Rev. Mr. Heavyweight (who has just read Peter’s denial of Christ)—What
are you so thoughtful about, Uncle ’Rastus?
Uncle ’Rastus—I was thinking’, massa parsin, dat if de Apostle Peter had
only been a cullud gemman, dat rooster wouldn’t have crowed more’n once.
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