A Fair Arrangement.
It is often said that the power of human sympathy to lighten the sorrows and trials of this life cannot well be overestimated.! This opinion was evidently held by Uncle Zero; a colored man who lived in a small ; Connecticut town. \sm
He had borrowed money from two busi-i ness men in the place to set himself up in the carpentering business; and his venture had proved so unsuccessful that before long he deemed it best to give up his trade and return to what he called "odd jobbin
'round."
He sold his carpenter's tools, and with a little money out of his old leather purse was able to make out a sum sufficient to discharge his debt to one of his two cred-j itors.
"But surely you haven't money enough, left to pay Mr. Arnold, too, have you,} Uncle Zero?" asked this gentleman, refer-: ring to the other creditor.
"Ain't got but jest 'nought' lib on till I ken am some more," remarked Uncle Zero. |- "Well, what are you going to do about
it?" asked the gentleman. j "I'll tell yo' wat I jest thought I'd bet-1
ter do," replied Uncle Zero. "I pay yo*i yoh money, sah, an I symp'thize wid Massa Arnold, an dat'll about fix it up ebenl"—Youth's Companion.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 253, 22 October 1892, Page 4 (Supplement)
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