A BAD DREAM.
A kegbo bad gone to sleep in the sun on the platform of a railway station in South Carolina, and some of the bojeput up a iob to have some fun with him, A bog of tthelled corn waß laid across bis knees, a second on his stomach, and a third on his liead. As the weight didn't waken him, "another bag was placed on his stomach, making about 370 pounds resting there. He snored away for tbrte minutee, grew aineasy, began, to mutter, and at tbe end of five threw the sacks off, and sat up and Hooked around in a dazed way. "^nj thing WTong.Rube?" asked one of the jokers. «*IV de Lawd, sab, bat I'ze had the voretest dream dat 1 ebbr drempt! I'ze *]J in cold blood!" "What was it?" «Drempt dat I had tich a sore froat I wouldn't swnller, au'deole woman brought toam two chickens, some yams, an a possum, an' dun cooked an' eat de bull .outfit wid me sittin' rivht dar an 1 not able to open my moufl Lawd cave me, but didn't I suffer when I saw de las' of dem «hicfeens pwine down her old froat!'
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Taranaki Herald, Volume XL, Issue 9257, 5 December 1891, Page 1 (Supplement)
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200A BAD DREAM. Taranaki Herald, Volume XL, Issue 9257, 5 December 1891, Page 1 (Supplement)
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