Born Black!
It was in Indiana, not so long 1 ago, that. the daughter of an, old farmer was,jL-eadingi ihe -local paper" to him.- She had got to | jfche ."Personals/ '-and read this: j "Mrs Willie Morritts, "nee Black, has returned from a visit to hei parents in lndianapolis?" • " •"'- . '
anap "I don't quite understand that,' said the eld - " ~ l - . " "What don'.t you understand?" inquired 3bhe 'daughter." * '• "That part, about Mrs "Willie Morritts »ay Black. What does that nay BlacTc mean?"
" Oh, that's Trench, and means she was born Black."
"Born black!" exclaimed the father oxciicdly. "Yes;. nee is French for born." "Well, it ain't ?o," ejaculated the old man, jumping up and shaking his fist; "I knbwed her parents, and' they were as white as anybody that eyjer lived in Indianny, and I'll see the editor ahout*it" ; but "before lie could "get- away the daughter had* explained matters, and tho old~ ge.itleluan pooled down.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2695, 8 November 1905, Page 84
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154Born Black! Otago Witness, Issue 2695, 8 November 1905, Page 84
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