The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-03-12
Inns Tnuastmant

Jim's investment.
Jim knowed all kinds of signs.
He said he knowed most everything.
l said it looked to me as if all the
signs was about bad luck, and so l
asked him if there warn't any good
luck signs. He say:
mighty few-an' dey amt no
use to body What you want to
know when lucks's a comm for?--
want to keep it off?'' and he said
eff you's got hairy arms an "a
hairy bres', it's sign dat you's
agwyne to be rich. Well, dey's
some use in sign like dat, kase
it's so fur ahead. You see, maybe
you's got to betpo' a long time fust,
en- so you might get discouraged en-
kill yourself f you didn't know by
de sign dat you gwine to be rich
bymeby.'.
"Have you got hairy arms and a
hairy breast, JimY'
whats de use to ak dat ques-
ton? Don't you see 1 has?"
''Well, are you rich?'
''No, but ] ben rich wunst, and
gywne to be rich again. Wunst ]
had fo'rteen dollars. but [ tux
to speculatin' en- got busted out.
what did you speculate in,
Jim?"s
"Well, fust I tackled Stock
What kind of stock?"
"Why, live stock. Cattle, you
know. l put $40 in a COW. But
ain gwyne to risk no mo- money in
stock. De COW Jpn died on my
hans"
$50 you lost the $1O9"
mo, 1 didn't lose it all. I only
lost bout nine of it. 1 sole de hide
en- taller for $1.10"
"You had 500 left. Did yor
speculate anymore?"
eyes. You know dat one leg
niger dat b'longs to ole Misti
Bradish? Well, he sot up a bank, Ell
say anybody dat put in q dollaI
would git TO- dollars mo- at de en(
er de year. Well, all de nigger
went in, but dey didn't have much
/ was the only one dat lad much
So l stuck out for mo- dan four dol
lars, en- l said # l didn't git it II
start bank myself. Well, Q
course dat niger wants to keep II
out err de bizness, bekase he sa
dey wasn't bizness 'nough for tw
banks, so he say could put in IN
So en- he pay me $50 at the end o
de year"
$50 1 done it. Den 1 reckone
: I'd inves' de $35 right off en- kee
} things a moving. Dey wuz a mig
=, ger named Bob, dat had ketohed
| wood fiat, en- his marster dldn'
= know it; en- 1 bought it of'n hil
and told him to take de $50 whe
9 de en- er de year come; but sem(
I body stole de wood fiat dat nigh
e en- mex day de one-laigged niggs
= say de banks busted. So ia
J. didn't none NV US git. no money.
}, What did you do with the te
cents, Jim?"
g "Well, 1 'uz gwyne to spen' i
}. but / had a dream, en- de dreal
tole me to give it to a name Balum
he's one er dem chuckle- head.
t you know. But he's lucky, dey say
e en- see warn't lucky. De drear
: say let Balum inves' de ten cent
. en- he'd make raise for me. Wei
2 Balum he tuck de money, en- Whe
g he wuz in church he hear de preach
. er say dat whoever give to de pC
= len to de Lord, en- bound to q
1 his money back hund'd times.
e Balum he tuck ca give de ten cent
f to de POI en- laid low to see wins
wuz gwyne to come of it,"
4 'Well, what did come of it, JimF
! Muffin never come Of it.
l couldn't manage to k'leck dat nor
t ey no way; en- Balum he couldn't
l ain gwyne to lem no mo- none
'dout 1 see de security. Boun' t
git yo' money back a hundred
: times, de preachers says! Eff
could git de ten cents back Il
| call it squah, en- be glad er d
/, chanst."
| "Well, it's all right anyway, jim
, long as you're going to be ricI
: again some time or other"
, "Yes-en Use rich now, come t
look at it. 1 owns myself, en- rs
with $500 But live stocks to-
, resky. Huck, I wisht l had d
$500, en- somebody else had de MIG
ger."-Mark Twain.