The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1885-10-08
WHOLE NO. l4l5.
How Negroes Say Good Night.

Pete Wheeler and Nugent Trumbull,
both residents of a Texas town. hap
pening to meet. the former remarked:
''You are not looking well, you have
black rings about your eyes. and you
look haggard. What's the matter with
you?"
Il can't get any sleep at nights?"
''Perhaps you smoke too much, or
you drink too much coffee?"
Il don't touch tobacco or coffee"
"A bad conscience, then?'
Haven't got any conscience that i
know Of"
Perhaps it's fleas or mosquitos?n
Neither of them"
You sit up all night and play poker,
that's why you can't Sleep
You are away off.
''Are you a night watchman and
sleep in the daytime?"
You get out"
Perhaps you live near a colored
church?"
Now, you are shouting. l don't
live near colored church, but | might
just as well. | live on the corner of
Hickory and Palmetto streets, and that
IS the corner where the negroes, return
ing from their pow-wow, break up.
Some going in one direction, and 9TH
ers in another
We'll, how does that disturb you so
much?"
did you ever notice how a lot of
darkles coming home from church say
good-by TO each other2'
Never did"
81 thought not. About l O'Clock
sit up ID bed with a start. There is a
noise outside as if mob were trying
to break into a jail to lynch a man. 1t
Is those darkies saying sood-by to each
other. right under my window. They
are all huddled together, but you would
suppose they We're shouting to each
other across river mile wide"
What do they say?'
Goodnight, Brudder jackson; tell
Uncle Sam and Cousin Lie howdv for
me. Goodnight all OBJ ver.' Good
night, Sister Bones; tell Mirandv dat
Ise got sumtit ter tell her. Tell all
the tolkses howdy from me-. Good
night, Aunt Sulkey; come ober and see
me tomorrow; tell Brudder Pete |
want his wife ter bring me back dat
wash board she borrowed las week
Goodnight; come ober and see me in
de mawnin'. Heah Heah! Heahl
Hits mawnin' already and they keep
that up until the old German, who
lives across the street, throws open the
blinds, and calls them verdamte meyer
The negroes retort by making remarks
that are tinctured with know-nothing-
ism. 1t would make a wooden man
tired. But you must not suppose that
when they bid each other goodnight
the session is over. Nothing of the
kind. The parting friends keep on
talking to each other and sending mes
sages until they are out of hearin o.
just as | was doing off last night a
negro woman, who was under my win
dow, called out to man who was a
hundred yards off, and they kept up a
conversation st long range for half an
hour, his voice sounding like a dog
backng6 qp oG ,s b9ldI9Wv d9Wv afRv;r
door to yur mudder, dat if | hears oh
her talkin about me agin. I'll scald
her, for n fac.
'GwAy Lie, you amt gwinter
scald nuifin. You is too lazy, you is.
You keep your eye peeled for the
green-eyed monstrum. Heah! heah!
beahi'
SIN about ten minutes another drove
of them are around, and they go over
the same racket with variations. I've
notified my landlord that Pm going to
leave on the 1st if | am alive. Ii |
can't do any better I'll camp out until
the colored people have got through
with their distracted meetings, rs they
call them. "-AteC. .oa0eet IN Chtcaq0
Times.