The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-09-24

70 Esp lie circulation gyine after IL
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Hala tfxZiye@y~. .i.y.
-E-s-zital ~osu%Sesl de Hellespout-
What IL dill ara sc crossed I du1
don't remember. bur | know he didn't
come back wild a watermillyon under
his arm and tell everybody dat he had
found e good thing.
~ lille Nero was making one half de
world stand around Ham was feedin
DE odder half on his new fruit and
wors!a' EN- up TO git Nero In q hole.
white men hev giben US de rail-
rode. de steamboat. de telegraph. de
telephone and de trolley cab. but de
day lat Ham glib us de watermiliyon
he won de eternal gratitude Of human
fty.
de white man stands on de rostrum
and in words Of patriotism and elo-
| quence stirs de heart fur war and
| glory. De Guild man takes a big red
cored millyon under his arm and hunts
fur a shady spot and sots down and
brings peace and contentment to de
land as he eats.
"De question has been axed me: Has
a Guild man a moral right to gobble
q watermillyon wheneber and wher-
eber he kin find 1t? l e spent three
days fggerin' on dat question wild a
blue pencil. Sometimes my fggers
come out one way, and sometimes
anodder. Sometimes 1t appeared dat
he has, and ag'in it appeared dat
he hain't. l shall darfo' leave de
question fur each one to decide fur
hisself.
81 am libin' next doah to a Guild
man. He raises some mighty big mill
yons. He don't keep no watchdog.
He don't set no spriag guns. He I'M
an old man and goes to bed airly and
sleeps like q log. KNOWN dat dat Guild
man will steal my m~Ilyons right along
it seems only right dat l should make
one hand wash de odder by stealth
his. He misses his fruit and sees my
| tracks in de sile. I miss mine and see
his tracks. but we don't say nuthin' to
each odder about it.
White Mans Truck Patch.
"In de case of a white mans truck
| HdlCu Uc COIlLlllOhS I'LL Il
de millyons am left lynn around dere
dey will prove a temptation to de
young innocent. Dey will bring crows
around. Dey will be forgotten and go
to decay. I can't see any pertickler
objection to de Guild man remOvin' a
few at a time, but he should be CON
siderate about it. He shouldn't break
down de fences or steal de hull patch
at once. If while he am in de patch
he meets up wild anodder Guild man
who am dar fur de same purpose, dar
am 10 call fur any hard feelin's be-
tween EN-. Oar am allus two big
millyons in de same patch, and de
gentlemen kin lift 'em up and go DER
separate ways.
"In G~evOurin' a mfllyon raised In
your own garden you kin cave de
rinds in a heap on de doahsteps to
make odder persons Jealous. When
YOU hev devOured one comm from a
white mans patch bury de rinds wild
care. De white man am unsartim You
nebber kin tell what he may do
81 have no chiTen, but fur Sartln
domestic reasons I allus cut a water
millyOn in half WIZ MIS-. 1hiuileI'
Dose domestic reasons am dat she VII
fy fur de broomstick if I don't. n
der am many of you differently sitn
ated. Glib de old woman a fair slice
and let de chiren mostly gnaw F''
rinds.
81 hev heea. axed if de watcrmi1lyFr
contains gers or microbes and IS :
sr~nader Of disease. Don't let nobo''
l fool Won on Fat question. # you X
get 10000 eat 'em up and take yo-F
chances. No ore kin ask fur n moEs
I pleasant deati than TO be killed by :
rel cove1 v~r-nrlnillvOn weighin' abo%ft
2 thirty pounds.
One Of do lost ~lanentable things q
I DO aioe an Re f2ct dat de mlil-0F
; Scum am so brief. but de
I rnnius of de black man am at wn"
and any CAV de world may be startiH|
] to lear of &c winter watermlllTon GA
2 needs no ice to cool it off befo' you 81
down to it and-yum. yum.
NJ. QUAD