How Sambo Went to Fetch the Dinner.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXV, Issue XXVI, 29 December 1900, Page 1239

How Sambo Went to Fetch the Dinner.

1. “Here, Sambo, my boy, run round de corner and bring me dat ole fowl we is going to hah for dinner." 2. Sambo scampered off round the corner, and nearly fell over Mr Cockadoodledoo in his hurry. “What is that you mean to do with me? Have me on toast for dinner, will you? I’ll see about that,” cried ' the angry bird, who was much bigger than Sambo expected. 3. “Now, then. Blackamoor, you had better get. out of this yard sharp, or I'll try my beak on those fat little legs of yours!” “Mother! help!” cried Sambo. “De fowls am "aiing to hab me for dinner!” 4. And he never stopped running till he reached home. f/l'Jre you /ire, mother: I’ve brought de fowl!” he cried, as he rushed through the door-way. “It appears to m\Jiit de fowl hab brought you,” said his mother. “And he looks so kind o’ ruffled that I think we’d better not Jwve him for dinner to-day, after all. P’r’aps he mightn’t like it, and we don’t want to ruffle Jiny