HOW HE SCREWED HIM UP.

Otago Witness, Issue 1324, 14 April 1877, Page 21

HOW HE SCREWED HIM UP.

Jim has been working in the country, and, on coming to town, was. regaling his friends with his experience, on the corner. ?°, U £?^ de maa what Iwent fc ° work wld J 3 . J W S U » you see > h e told me he would do better by me dan any of his neighbours was doin' by der hans : he would give me de ihird of the crap, and I fine myself. Well, you see, I went to church, and gits 'quainted wid de neighbours hans. Dars Mr Washington, he is working on young Billy Smith's place, and he s gittin' de fourth, and find lnsself : and dars Mr Linkum, he's workin' on old man Jones's place, and he's gittin' de nfth, and is found besides. Well, yer see, Hrhen I gits home, and was aworkin' in de crap, I got to studyin', and de more I studied de more I come to de conclusion dat de third wasn't gwine to dome, bo I goes to de boss, and says— l says •— You told me you was gwine to do better by me dan any de neighbours was by dere hans. He says he'd been talkin' to 'em, and dat he was ; and I says dat I'se been havin some constination wid de neighbours' hans myself— dat Smith's hans was gittm de fourth, and Brown's hans was gittin de fifth an' found, and I wasn't goin' to stand no third. So he says he would resign de old one and make a new contrack, an' we boff come to town 'fore Squire Robinson, an' made it. Here's de paper now, and dats de way I screwed him up to de sixth. I tell you what's de fack, boys ; you can't trust one of dem white folks." And Jim mounted his mule and rode ott.—Jackson (Miss.) Pilot