Humour.

Southern Cross, Volume 3, Issue 3, 20 April 1895, Page 9

Humour.

; HE WOULD BOSS THE JOB.. ' ‘.I war .lookin’ fur yon,’ observed a, colored, citizen to a policeman whom, he met on the .street. , . ~, ‘What, was the trouble:?’ , , . ‘ A pusson .claimin' to be my .wire, an’ hayin' three children behind her, a,rroved from, Canada.’/,- s ‘ Did, eh , ‘ Yes, sah, an’ de fust I knowed of it,,do crowd right at de doah of my house. ...I* just kinder reckoned on a sort o’ cyclone, you know. Looked as if it would come powerful ; snddea on de wife ah’ two cbill’en inside.’; ,j, ‘ Whew! And what did you do.?’ ‘Broke de ice \yerry gradual, sah. I s’pected dar’d .be screamin’ .an’ yellin’ an’. ha’r-pjillin’, but ebery thing moved off de tranquillest you eber saw. De pusson from Canada .stuck to it dat she was de .werry woman I run’d away from five y’ars ago, an’ so when,! saw dat it was np good to argy 1 took de hull of ’em in.’ ‘ And what did No. 2- say ?’, ' . ‘ Yudin’ werry important. She kinder clawed aroun’ fur a spell an’ - den settled down, | De chill’en took to each odder right away, an’ dey is now minglin’ together in de harmonies! manner.’ ■, , : ;-. ■. ‘ And you ate going to run two families ?’ ‘ Well, sah, Tzo suggested dat ’ one take, in washin’ an’ de odder de ironin’, .while I kinder boss de job,, an’ I reckon, we’ll git along widout any serious perforashuns,. Ize a, pusson dat am bound to, have tranquillity 'aroun’ my house, at any cost. You can sort o’ hang aroun’ heal), you know an’ if dar should be a sudden upshot de sight of you would go a good ways to ’ embellish renewed harmony.’ —Detroit Free Press/