THE LAST NINE CENTS.
An old colored man named Farley had a orowd around him on the street, while he related how he had lost faith in the white population. "Yer see," began the old man, " I fought I war all solid wid one o' dem lawyers up stars, down dar. I carried up his coal mighty oheap, kase de pay was suah ; an' when I swep' out de office I didn't leave no bonds an' mortgages alayin' under de chars, to gitlosted an' make trouble. Dat man hez gometimes owed me a hull forty cents, but I didn't worry ober it de leas' bit. Las' Saturday, when we settled, up, dar was a balance o' nine cents due me, but I didn't push him to de wall fur it. Iknode I'd git it de nex' time, suah."
"And now he denies the account, eh ?" asked a byntander, . \ "Denies de a-oount?" shouted the old man, as he wheeled about like a Bky-rooket. > " Why, Bah, airly on Monday mawnin' dat ''man tuk his, hull fam'ly an' started for Turtrup, to be gone six months! Yes, Bah— • walked right. away, widoub matin' de least perwiehun fur ,payin' me dat nine cents ! Nebber tole de lawyer next doah to han' me de change, an' charge de same to hisa-count 1"
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Otago Witness, Issue 1461, 15 November 1879, Page 24
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217THE LAST NINE CENTS. Otago Witness, Issue 1461, 15 November 1879, Page 24
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