A Cunning Negro.

Otago Witness, Issue 2840, 19 August 1908, Page 95

A Cunning Neg ro.

• ,^Vihen resident in the Southern States of America. I kept .a- oiegiro sex^'a-nt, who 1 \ralnte3'Vlol;,of getting over. • , • '.•'cJ^-3Vfaree- ifoMi," said'lie to me one morn- - Jingjf* "JE-irj'es'- up, an' clean dcs& -winders dis ■iaojfnin?.". '. ' * ' ",;Ts'tAJl right, Cassar," I replied. I'f'^V's' got ter hah a. Half a, tumbler of -whisky, 4 Marse John. ' D're ain't nuffin like 1 wftteky.for oleanin' .winders." ' ' ', v-3!bejf'ha.lfTtumbler was-'-promptly, given ' •Caesar*/ .who^jtrmed-himself •wi/th!< some iags, thia,'whipky to.'another Toom to'Tj^iin'* wtwrk.',, A. few' minutes afterwards I ' .ih^d!j; occasion, -to eaiflfer .hi^^room. CBesar ' .was,' busy'polishing- the. windows. The -fcuMaibleT was on the table, but- no whisky inVit. ■ - ..-/,' ".'•-' ; . •- ■ 'ri-^Why, Cae3ax/ ,-whatJs ;,'b'ecome" ' tho, whfisky? "..,I asked. '""I thought ypu used "$l So I does, Mais© John, so I-,does," was >* "Ye see, sah/ I drinks d© ,-whlslryan' blows'iny;bfef >agin.Se?jvind^Es-1. 7' v