A BAD DREAM.
A,negro had gone to sleep in the sun on, the platform of a railway station in South Caroline, and^some of the boys put up a job to have some fun with him. A bag of shelled corn was laid across his knees, a second on his stomach, and a third on his head. As the weight'didn't wake, him, another bag was placed on his stomach, making about 370 pounds resting there. He shored away for three minutes, grew uneasy, bee an to mutter, and at the end of five ainutes, threw the sacks off, and eat up and looked around in a dazed way. • Anything wrong, Rube ?' asked one of the jokers. 1 Fo' de Lawd, sah, bnt I'ze had the worstest dream dat I eber dreampt! I'm all in cold blood !' 'What was it ?J ' Drempt dat I had sich a sore froat I couldn't awaller, an' de ole woman brought hum two chickens, some yams, an' a 'po««, sum, an' dun cooked an' eat de hull outfit: wid me sittin' right dar, an not able to open my mouf 1 Lawd save me, but didn't I suffer when I saw de las' of dem chickens gwine down her old froat 1' ■
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Thames Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 7081, 13 January 1892, Page 1
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206A BAD DREAM. Thames Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 7081, 13 January 1892, Page 1
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