A coloured hoy was taking a stroll through a cemetery and reading the inscriptions on the tombstones. He enmo to one which declared : “ Not dead hut sleeping.” After contemplating the phrase for n moment, and scrat't”'ng his head, the negro exclaimed; “Ho sure ain't foolin’ no one body but his- 1 self.”.
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Evening Star, Issue 23175, 26 January 1939, Page 8
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52Untitled Evening Star, Issue 23175, 26 January 1939, Page 8
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