Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-03-13
WHY AFOOI.
Hew a COlOred Man Lost His
Money and Mules and Wife.

Little Rock Gazette.l
Il blieves dat some niggers is de
biggest fools | ever seed" remarked
Adam Wilson, a colored man, who re-
Gently passed through quite a misfor-
tune. de berry time when a man is
de biggest fool. is de time when he
don't know it."
What's the matter now, Adam p
asked a gentleman standing near.
"Nothin' only | got married hight
afore las.
And are you dissatisfied SO
soou?"
Yes, sab, an wish l nebber had a
seed de oman
Why"
well, I'll report ter yer de pints,
facts and fggers in de case. Some
time ago | fell powerful in Tub wild a
likely yaller oman, an 'pearances
teached me dat she'd sot her fcctions
on ter me. AFTER a while, we become
gagged. De weddin' we're sot. Gwine
ter see her at de san Q time, an a man
OBJ whom | had no sospicions, was a
Mepherdist preacher. | didn't spect
dat he were workin' agin me, till de
night oh dc weddin'. Den | foun'
out. | hired him ter form de cere-
mony. He cum wild his CLUBS on. an
wild his head fixed up till il looked ter
me like a burnt stump. While | wa
a standin' outside de house, talkin' ter
one OBJ my freens, | heard de plelcher
say ter de gal, Lou, yer oughtent ter
marry dat man. He is a putty good
sort of a Teller, but be haint got no
money, or neber will hab none. I'll
bet he couldn't raise five dollars ter
save his life. Den a plan struck me.
My freen had just come from sellin his
cotton, an | SEE ter him: Len me a
hundred dollar bill ifyer've got one.
He wouldn't lend hit ter me widout
security, an in de presence OBJ wit
nesses | put up my two mules. Eff !
didn't turn the money in four hours
the mules were hizen. De preacher
had been BLOWN all aroun' dat
didn't hab no meney, an some OBJ de
people believed him. Well, arter he
formed de ceremony, | pulled out de
hundred dollar bill, Airted it aroun'
an SEE: Here's a hundred dollars
and handed hit ter him, ~whisperin
'Parson, take out five dollor fur yel
services, an gimmy dc change" De
people opened da eyes. All right
said do parsan, in a minute" A houl
passed an he didn't gin de money
back. | went up ter him an seq
Look heah, man, whar's my money!
60 on wild yer wife an Joy yerself,'
he seq. Don't yer know what Pau.
sep YES, | does know. Paul SCI
yer mustn't rob Peter ter pay him. an
81 yer don't han me back dat money
Ill mix wid yer right heah." Den dc
people cur aroun' and sed dat | was
a fool. Dis struck me so natril dai
Oy do time | was done liber.
attn ober de %propersition q
preacher was gone, Yes, sab; had
done kissed my wife an went. Mex
day my fren cum arOun' an tuck my
mules"
That is very serious, Adam. but
you should not find fault with your
wife, who married you in spite of al
opposition"
II doesn't find fault wild her kase
she married me in spite of all oppersi.
ton, but dar's one trick bout dat
oman. what [ doesn't like
rs it her disposition?'
"Nosah. faint
rs it because she is not capable o
making You a good wiGe?"
No sab. Hits a little game what
she glib me in de face OBJ my unfor
tunes
What did she do?7
Why she run away wild daI
preacher dis mornin', an now Is,
broke, widout money, mules or wife
OATS why | say sum niggers is de big
gest fools 10 de wurli'