The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-02-12
JIhJ'S INVESTMENTS
A Colored Citizen Demonstrates Why
Signs Of aoOs; Luck ARE pIsclcss

a COIored Citizen Demonstrates WHY
Signs Of Good Luck are Useless,
Jim knowcd all kinds of signs. He said
he knowed most everything. | said it
looked to me like all the signs was about
bad luck and so asked him if there warn't
any good-iGe& signs. he says:
Mighty few-an dey ain no use to q
body What you want to know when good
luck's a-comin' for want to keep it Off ?"
And he said; eff you's got hairy arms en-
hairy breas', it's sign yous agwyne to
be rich. Well, dey's some use in q sign like
dat, 'kase it's SO fur ahead. You see. may
be you's got to be POI a long time fust, en-
SO you might git discourage en- kill yo'sef
4 you dldn' know de sign dat you gwyne
to be rich bymeby."
Have you got hairy arms and hairy
breast, Jim 20
Whats de use to AK dat question Don't
you see | has ?"
well, are you rich ?"
mo; but ben rich wunst, and gwyne
to be rich agin. Wunst had fo'teen dol
lars, but tuck to speculat'n', en- got bust
ed OUT
What did you speculate in, jim ,"
We'll, fust tackled stock
" Iidt hlbtl VI SUCK
"Why, live stock. Cattle, Won know
put ten dollars in a COW. But amt gwvne
TO Tesk no mo- money in stock. De COW up
II died on my hams
so you lost the ten dollars ,"
NO; | didn't lose it all on'y los bout
nine OF It, sole de hide en- taller for dol
lar en- ten cents"
,>, You had FIVE dollars and ten cents left.
Did you speculate any mere :"
eS. NOu know dat ono 1 ai ,,e.aJ ,,;.,,xo.
dat b'longs TO ole Misto Brudisii ? Wei, he
sot up bank, en- say anybody dat nut in a
dollar would git fO' dollars mo- at de en- or
de year. Well, all de niggers went in, bllt
dey adm have much. was the Only one
dat had much. So stuck out for mo; dan
TO dollars, en- | said T ! didn' git it I'd
start a bank mysef. Well. O course dat
Niger want to keep me out er de business.
bekase he say dcy warn't business 'nough
Tor two banks, SO he say could put in nv
hVe dollars en- he pay me thirty-tive at de
en- er de year.
so done it. Den | reck'n'd I'd inyes'
de thirty-five dollars right off en- keen
1hlhSs a-moVln'. Dey, WIZ Niger name
Bob, dat had ketched wGod-Hat, en- his
marster didn' know it; en- bought il oiT'p
nm, en- told him to take de thirty-fve dol
lars when de en- er de wear come. Int
somebody stole de wood-fiat dat night. en-
mex, day de one-laigged Niger say de
banks busted. So dey didn' none Of us cit
no money"
What did you do with the ten cents.
Jim ?" 0e'''''
Well, 'uz gwyne to spen' it, but had
dream, en- de dream tole me ter give it to
niger name Balum-Balum's ASS dey
call him, for short he's one err dem chucF}e- !
heads, you know But he's lucky, dey SAY, !
en- | see warn't lucky De dream say let
Balum 1nyeS' de ten cents Ell he'd make a
raise for me. Well, Balum he tuck de
money, en- when he WIZ in church he hear
de. preacher say dat whoever give to de
po' len to de Lord, Ell b0un' to cit his
money back a hrmd'd times, So Balum he
tuck en- give de ten cents to de POI en- laid
low to see what wuz gwine to come of it."
Well, what did come of it, Jim ?"
Muffin never come of it. | couldn't
manage to k'leck dat money no way: en-
Baium he couldn'. ain gwyne to len no
mo- money dout see de security. Boun'
to git yo money back a hund'd times de
preacher say Eff could git de ten cents
back, Ia call it squah, en- be glad er de
chanst"
"Well, it's all right anyway, jim. long as
you're going to be rich again some time or |
other"
Yes-en rs rich now, come to LOOK at it.
owns myself, en- Is with eight hund'd dol |
lars But live stocks too resky, Huck. 7 |
wisht l had de eight hund'd dollars. |
en- somebody else had dc Niger. Mark |
Twain, in the Century.