Santa Fe daily New Mexican., 1895-06-18
TALKING UP THE EGGS.
How Old Nose Was Helped Along by His
El0quence.


EiOquence.
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 familiarly
with his customers; hence he frequently
makes mistakes in counting out the eggs
they buy He carries his wares around in
a small cart drawn by diminutive don
key. He stopped in front of the residence
of Mrs. Samuel Burton. The old lady her
self came out to the gate to make the pur
chases.
"Have you got any eggs this morning,
Uncle Mose?" she asked.
EYES, indeed, has. Jess got in ten
dozen from de kentry."
care they fresh9"
II qua ntees 'em. knows dey am
fresh"
"I'll 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 being fresh.
How's your son comm on at de school. He
mus be mos grownf"
EYES, Uncle Nose, he Is clerk in bank
in Galveston.
"Why how ole am de boy?"
"He is 49,"
"You don't tole me so. Eighteen, an
gittin salary already. Eighteen Count
ing), nineteen, twenty, twenty twenty.
one, twenty two twenty three, twenty
foah, twenty -Ave--and how's yore gal
comm on? She was mos growed up de las
time see her."
"She's married and living in Dallas.
"Waal, I declar'. How de time scoots
away! An you say she has childrunsi
Why how ole an, do galP She must be jess
about
Thirty
cam dat so? (Counting) Firty-three,
frty y-foah, flrty-flve, firty-six, flrty -seben,
firty-eight, frty-nine, forty, forty -one,
forty-two, forty free. Hit am SO singler
dat you has sich ole childruns. can't
bloeve you has gran 'childruns. You don't
look more den forty yeahs ole yerself. /"
"Nonsense, old man, see you want to
aatter me. When a person gets to be fifty.
three years old
"Fifty-freeS jess don't gwinter b'leeve
hit. Fifty-free, ffty-foah, fifty-ave, fifty
six---I want you to pay tenshun when
counts de eggs, so dar'll be no mistake
flfty-nine, sixty sixty-one, sixty-two,
sixty free, sixty -foah-whew Dat am a
warm day! Dis am de time oh yeah when
feels I'ze gettin ole myself. amt long
fer dis world. You comes from an ole
family. When yore fodder died, he was
sebenty years OLE"
"Seventy
"Dat's DID, suah. Sebenty-two, sebenty-
free, sebenty- -foah sebenty five, sebenty-
six, sebenty- -scben, sebenty eight, sebenty-
nine-and yore mudderp She was one OBJ
dc noblest lookin ladies ebber see. You
reminds me OBJ her SO much. She libbed
to mos a hundred. b'leeves she was done
pass a centurion when she died.
"No, Uncle Nose; she was only 90 when
she died"
"Den she warn't no chicken when she
died. know dat-ninety- ninety
seben, ninety eight, ninety nine, one hun
dred, one, two, free, foah, five, six, seben
eight. Dey is one hundred and eight nice
fresh eggs, jess nine dozen, and here am
one noah egg in case has discounted
myself"
Old Nose went on his way rejoicing. A
few days afterward Mrs. Burton said to
her husbands:
II am afraid we will have to discharge
Matilda. She steals 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 myself and there were
nine dozen. Texas Siftings.