Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-07-24
NOSE AND THE EGGS.
he Was Sure He Counted Right Becsuse
She Heard Him.

he Was Sure He Counted Right Becsuso
She Heard Him. a
Old Nose, who sells eggs and chickens
on the streets of Austin for living, Is
as honest an old negro as ever lived. but
he has got the habit Of chatting familiar
ly with his customers, hence he fire.
quently makes mistakes in counting out
the eggs they buy. He carries his wares
around in . small cart drawn by . di-
minutive donkey. He stopped in front
of the residence of Mr.. Samuel Burton.
The old lady herself came out to the
gate to make the purchases.
''Have you got any eggs this morning.
Uncle Mose?" she asked.
"Yes, indeed l has. Jess got in ten
dozen from de kentry."
'Are they fresh"
II guantees 'em. I knows dey am
fresh"
'I'll take nine dozen. You can just
count them into this basket"
"All right, mum;" he counts: "Ore,
two, free, foah, five, six, seben, eight,
nine, ten. You kin rely on dem bein
fresh. How's your son coming on al
school? He mus be mos grown"
Eyes, Uncle Nose, he is . clerk in a
bank at Galveston"
"Why, how ole am de boyY
"He is eighteen"
"You don't tole me 80. Eighteen and
getting q salary already, eighteen,
(counting), nineteen, twenty, twenty
one, twenty-five, twenty-tree, twenty
foah, twenty-five, and how's your gal
comm on? She was mos growed up de
las' time ! seed her."
''She is married and living in Dallas. y
"Wall, declar. How the times scoots
| away! An you says she has childrunsi
Why, how ole am de gal? She must be
| jess about
| "Thirty-three."
cam dat so (counting), firty-free. firty-
foah, firty-five, frty-six, firty -seben,
6rty-eight, 6rty-nine, forty, forty-one,
forty-two, forty-free. Hit am singler
dat you has SIGH old childruns. can.
bleeve you has gran childruns. You
! don't look morte den forty yeahs old,
yerseff."
+ Nonsense, old man; I see you wan.
10 natter me. When person gets to be
6fty-three years old
"Fifty-free? jess dun gwinter
bleeve hit, fifty-free, ffty-foah, fifty
Eve, ffty-six-I want you to pay ten.
Shun when counts de eggs, 30 dar1l be
no Observation-Disclosures, sixty, sixty-one,
sixty-two. sixty-free, sixty-foah. Whewl
Dat am q warm day. Dis am de time
oh yeah when l feels Use gettin ole my.
self. amt long fer dis world. You
comes from an ole family. When yoro
fodder died he was sebenty years OLE"
''Seventy-two."
''Dat's old suah. Sebenty-two. seben.
ty-free, sebenty -foah- sebenty- five, sch
enty-six, sebenty -seben, sebenty-eight.
sebenty-nine-snd your mudder? She
was one OBJ de noblest looking ladies
ebber see. You reminds me OBJ her "a
much. She libbed to mos . hundred.
bleeves she was done pass q centurion
when she died"
mo, Uncle Nose. she was only ninety.
nix when she died.
Den she warn't no chicken when she
died. l know dat-ninety-six ninety.
seben, ninety-eight. ninety-nine, ons
hundred. enc, two. free. foah. FIVE. six
eeben. eight--dar los nice fresh eggs
Jess nine dozen. and here am one noah
egg in case has discounted myse'f.-
Old Nose went on his way rejoicing
A few days afterward Mrs. Burton said
10 her husband:
II am afraid we will have 70 die
charge Matilda. ! am satisfied she steal,
the milk and eggs. am positive about
the eggs. for bought them day befors
yesterday, and now about half Of then
are gone. stood right there and heard
Old Mose count them myself, and there