SAM KNEW.
’■Sam.” said the master to an old nigger. “I want yon to take these tiousers and clean this spot off.” "Yassah. 1 get it right off.” The old nigger cyme back in a few mimitvs and said \ ■‘Ross *T-tf sere is a troublesome spot. I can’t got it off nohow.” The garments were a pair of cheek trousers and Sam had eyed them en- ' ionsly for some time, and lie knew ihev would be handed down to him. So be ivasn’t going to vet that spot off. ‘-See here. Sam. did you try soap and water 4 ” •‘Ya-sah. but 'ttin’t no count." ‘■Rid von trv petrol?’’ ‘■Yasxeh. ’deed I did?” ‘■Rid yon try ammonia?” f’em-on-*No. sar. I ain’t tried ’em on me yit, ’ nt I know they tits I”
WHAT A DIFFERENCE. Miss Mar Bob-on. the famous American actress, tells this story. It was during a performance of Antony ami Cleopatra in the English provinces. and the curtain bad gone down on Cleop.itr:’. fearing about the stag? in a nnroyism cl fiirv. " “Ah.” one old lady remarked to the other, “what a diffesenoe to the quiet home life of our own dear Queen Victoria.”
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 126, 13 May 1911, Page 2 (Supplement)
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196SAM KNEW. Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 126, 13 May 1911, Page 2 (Supplement)
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