The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-12-25
TIE JUDGMENTOF SOLOMON.
How It Wns Viewed by mn Obscrynnt Colorc,
Scrlpturnl Student.

How It WIS Viewed by III Obseryant Colorod
ScripturM Student.
Marx 7iedin IN Century.
read considerable to Jim about kings
and duccs and carls and such, and how
gaudy they dressed and how much style
they put on, and called each other your
majesty, and your grace, and your lord.
ship, and SO on, stead Of mister; and
Jim's eyes bulsed out, and he was inter-
ested. He says;
al didn't know doy was so many I'LL UNI.
| haint hcarn bout none I'm UNI skascly,
but ole King Sollermun, onless YOU counts
dem kings dats in a pack er k'yards.
How mitch do Il king git?"
"Get?" l says; "why, they got Il thous-
and dollars a month, il they want it they
can have just MS much rs they want;
everything belongs to them" p
Ain dat gay! En- what dcy got TO do,
IIuck?"
"Tltoy don't do nothing. Why, how
you talk! They just set around"
mo; is dat so?"
"Of course it is. They Just set around,
except maybe when there's a war. Then
they go to the war. But other times they
just lazy around or 20 hawking-just
hawking and sp- Sh! D'you hear u
noise?"
We skipped out and looked; but it
warn't nothing but the lutter OF 4 steam
boats wheel, away down coming around
the point; so wo come back.
YES" says |, ''and other times when
things is dull, they fuse with Parly1nent;
and ii everybody don't 20 Just so he
whacks their heals of. But mostly they
hang round the harem."
"Round dc which?"
"IIarem."
whats dc harem? 7"
"T}ic place where he keeps his wives.
Don't you know about the harem? Solo
mon had one; he had about a million
wives"
"Why, yes, dat's so; lid done forgot
it. \ harcm's a bo'd'n house, l reck'n.
Mos likely dey has rackety times in dc
nussery. En- I reck'n dc wives quarrc}s
considerable; en- dat crease do racket.
iit dey say Sollerman dc wises' mr. dat
ever live. l doan't take no stock in dat.
Becase why? Would Il wise man want to
live in dc minds or such a blimblammin'
all dc time? Nodded he wouldn't. A
wise man nd take en- buhl,.a biler factry;
en- den lie could shet down do bilcr iactry
when he want to res"
swell, but he was the wiscst man, n V
way; because tho widow she told me SO,
her own SELF"
II doan' k'yer what do wilder say, he
Waredt no wise man, nuther. He had
some or do dadietchedes' ways l ever see.
Does you know bout dat chile dat he 'uz
gwyne to chop in two?"
ayes, dc widow told me all about it."
"Well, den! Warm dat de beatenes'
notion in de worl'? You jes' take ell look
at a minute. Dar's de stump, dah-dat's
one CT de women; heah's you-dat's do
yuthcr one; Is Sollerman; en- dish yer
dollar bills de chile. Boio un you claims
it. What does I do? Does I shin aroun'
'mongs' dc ~neighbors en- fine out which I'm
you de bill do blong to, en- han it over to
de right one, all sale en- SCUM, dc way dat
ANYBODY tina any gumption would? No
- take on whack do bill en- two, en- give
hat I'm it to you, en- do yuther half to dc
yuther woman. OATS de way Sollermun
was gwyne to do wild dc chile7 Now, I
want to ask you: what's do use erdat half
a biN?-can't buy nuth'n wild it. En- what
use is n half a chile? l wouldn't give a
durn for a million on um."
But hang it, Jim, you've clean missed
the point-blame it, you've missed it n
miles"
"Who? Met Go long. Doan' talk to
mo bout yo' pints. I reek'n I knows
sense when Lsecs it; OH dey aim no sense
in SIGH doin's ms dat. Dc squirt warn't
bout half n chile; do 'spute warn't bout
a whole chile; Ell dc man dat think he kin
settle a 'spute bout a whole child wild a
half n chile doan know enough to come in
out'n de rain. Doan' talk to me bout
Sollcrmon, Huck, I knows him by do
back" =
"But I tell you, you don't get tho point
"Blamc dc pint! I reck'n l knows what
I knows. En- mine you, do real pint is
down furdcr--it's down deeper. It lays
in de way Sollermon was raised. You
take q man dat's got only ono or two
chillen; is dat man gwync to be wasteful
O. chillcn? No, he amt; he can't ford it.
Hc knows how to value 'em. But take n
man dat's got bout five million chillen
runnin' roun' de house, en- its ditfunt. He
us O ,chopa chile in Two as a cat. Dey's
plenty mo-. 4 chile or two. mo- or less,
marn't no consckens to S%ollermon, dad
fetch him"
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