The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1885-09-02
A TRANSACTIONS IN EGGS.
THE Buyer X nows There was Mistake
Because she Heard Them Count
zss45 ed Herself.

Old Nose, who soils eggs and chickens
on the streets of Austin for a living, is as hon.
est an old negro as ever lived, but he has
got the habit of chatting Familiarity with his
customers, hence he frequently makes mis-
takes in counting out the eggs they buy. He
carries his wares around in small cart
drawn by diminutive donkey. He stop
ped in front of the residence of Mrs. Samuel
Burton. The old lady herself came out ia
the Gase to make the purchases.
Have you got any eggs this morning,
Uncle Nose ?" she asked.
Yes, indeed 1 has. Jess got ten doz
en- from de kentry."
Are they fresh 2"
at gua'ntee 'em. knows they am fresh
Jess de same as of | had laid 'em myself"
"Pll take nine dozen. You can just
count them into this basket"
"All right, num-" He counts, Zone,
two, free, foah, five, six, seben, eight, nine,
ten. You kin rely on dem bein' fresh. How's
your son coming ON at de school? He mus
be mos grown"
eyes, uncle Nose, he is clerk in bank
ut Galveston"
Why, how ole am de boyP"
" He is eighteen"
You don't tole me SO. Eighteen and
getting salary already, eighteen (counting),
nineteen, twenty, twenty-one, twenty-five,
swenty-free, twenty foah, twenty-five, and
how's yore gal comm onp She was mos
growed up de las time seed her."
"She is married and living in Dallas"
"Wall, declaf' How de time scooti
away An yo' say she has childruns
Why how ole am de gal? She mus be jess
about-n
Thirty three"
Am dat SO Counting firty-free, frty-
foah, firty-fve, firty-six, firty-seben, frty-
eight, frty-nine, forty, forty-one, forty-two,
forty three. Hit am SO singular dat you has
SIGH old childruns. I can't b'leeye you has
granchildruns. You don't look more den
forty yeahs old yerseff."
Nonsense, old man, see you want tc
fatter me. When q person gets to be fifty.
three years Old"
Fifty-free? jess dun gwinter b'leevt
hit, ffty-free, fifty-foah, fifty-fve, fifty-six-
de eggs, SO dnr'll be no mistake-fifty
sixty, sixty-one, sixty-two, sixty-freo, sixty
foah-Whew. Dat am n warm day. Dia
am de time OBJ yeah when feels Use gettin'
ole myself. amt long fer dis world. You
comes from on ole family. When your fod-
der died he was sebenty years OLE"
Seventy-two."
"Dat's old, suah. Sebenty-two, sebenty-
Tree, sebenty-foah, sebenty-fve, sebenty-
ak, sebenty- seben, sebenty-eight, sebenty-
nino-and your mudder? She was one oh
de noblcst looking Indies / ebber see. You
reminds me OBJ her so much. She libbed te
mos hundred. bleeves she was done
pass centurion when she died."
mo, uncle Nose, she was only ninety
six when she died."
died. Iknow that--ninety-s ninety -seben,
ninety-eighr, ninety-nine, one hundred, one,
two, free, foah, five, six, seben, eight-daf
l0S nice fresh eggs-jess nine dozen, and
here am one noah egg in case / has dis
counted myself "a E##
Old Nose went on his why rejoicing. A
few days afterward Mrs. Burton said to hel
husband:
81 am afraid we will have to discharge
Matilda. ! am satisfied she steals milk and
eggs. am positive about the eggs, for
bought them day before yesterday, and now
about half Of them are gone. stood right
there and heard Old Nose count them my.
self and there were nine dozen. "-7eras
Siftings. M Ell