Floored.
An American writer tells a good stoiy of his college days. It relates to a negro gardener. a jolly fellow with whom rLe boys used to have consideiable sport. Sometimes he would floor them with his repartee.
One day m spring, Sambo had been burning the college green in order to gel rid of the old withered grass. A frephman came along, and, thinking to have &ome fun, shouted :
"Say, there, Sambo, you ought not to burn thai stuff !" "Why?" inquired Sambo. "Beoaitse,"' replied the freshman, "it'll make that grass as black as you ara.*'
''Well, massa," retorted Sambo, "dal's all right. Yes, dats all right. Never joxv fear ; dat 'ere grass'll come up and be as green as you are !"
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Otago Witness, Issue 2413, 31 May 1900, Page 61
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122Floored. Otago Witness, Issue 2413, 31 May 1900, Page 61
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