A Nigger Story.
Mr John D. Leckie contributes a number of nigget stories to Chambers's Journal. llliteracy if> very general among the Southern iiegi ocs, and there are (or were) few who have even an elementary knowledge of arithmetic; thougih not wanting in natural shrewdness, they are apt to be overreached by their unscrupulous white brethren. A negro, who had made an arrangement with ;> Southern planter to sow a plot of land with corn, had agreed to receive in return a certain proportion of the crop. Relating the transaction afterwards to a friend, he remarked: "CVonel X. wanted me to take the land on shares, and offered me a fourth of trie crop. But I was not satisfied: I held out for a fifth, and I got it. You oiti I" fool this ni<rsrer !"
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Otago Witness, Issue 2817, 11 March 1908, Page 91
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134A Nigger Story. Otago Witness, Issue 2817, 11 March 1908, Page 91
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