THE NEGRO’S HUMOUR.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 261, 21 October 1911, Page 1 (Supplement)

THE NEGRO’S HUMOUR.

Tho negro is not the dull, mud-brain-ed. specimen of humanity that some would nave us think In a certain town in the United States a negro kept a bookshop winch soon became a favourite meeting-place for gay young students from the neighbouring college. L’-ut on * day .a rough set came into his shop, and took advantage of his well-known good teinjier by behaving in i<. i'.-'wdy fashion. Promptly the negro set to work and evolved the follow ii.g notice, which he bung up in full view: RULES. ]).-■ not shut the door. It will offend the flies. Stamp all the mud off o;; the floor, lor it' you use the doormat it will soon wear out. This is my busy day, so come in aud hang around Smoke i.i here; the ladies will enjoy it. I don’t like to be bctheied to handle yoiu’ cash. EATING A CHURCH. Some astonishment was caused at a C'hurr-h connml in Canada when a missionary f?i«hop gravely remarked that tho ’liocfse of oca cf his brethren had " gone to the dogs • He was asked to ftate v. hat he- nw-tni. Tho Eskimo- ot t-diocese, it appeared, l-.e.d buii’, a rough church of material-; to hand, using whale ribs for the iwftcrs, and covering the whole with v.alnis Jude. Then one day a pack of starving, lia’f-wild dogs set upon that church, tore it down, and ate it!