Elbert County tribune and Elbert County banner., 1921-07-01
E. U. H. S. JUNIOR CLASS
PROPHECY OF 1921
Recalled To Life. ("

tray containing the prisoners
breakfast.
wal, Mister, l cannot complain
SO very much, yit it seems mighty
lonesome in heah, all by mahse'f,
wild no other niger to talk to, OBJ
s'pose IL wouldn't be half SO hard
but as it is, I'm a regular phone
graph mahsef, but / kinda lax to
hear a wee bit of an answer once
and a while. BY de way Mister,
do you know ies how much longer
I got ter stay down heah in dis stay
bommobi1e place? clean forgot
what day was what. l thought
yesterday was Monday and dis mon
in it seems lax Sunday because l
heah so many bells a ringing jes
when l woke up
why. Sam, didn't think you
were that lazy replied the turn
key, those bells were train bells"
wal, 1 was tired last night"
Tired of what?"
"Tired of sittin heah, OBJ course"
replied Sam. But ] ag'in asks
yer. when l can git out OBJ heah 2"
Just kindly give me time, Mr..
Sam, and I'll answer that very
ques tion l saw on the jailer's
books where you were to get out in
| ~ h,,t q a
the Judge talking and he said that
for your impatience in the court
room the other day, they'd better
keep you in a day extra"
wal, I'll be -" and here
Sam stopped wal, I'll be hang Il
II dis amt de queerest place in de
world. l thought dis heah was a
Tree and Independent country what
had free speech, but it sho' looks
lax de man what said dat is clean
crazy. All's l tole dat Judge was
he done sentenced a man foah two
weeks jes cause he had a bottle
ob grape juice and was carrying it
home as fast as ever was. Yeh
see, it was dis way, Mister Jail
bird" Several days ago, one
mite, l got nah work all done up
early an l put on my second bes
clothes and | takes de street car
and goes to de grape harbor away
ober in de East-western part OBJ de
town and l buys de incest basket
lob des big blue grapes wal,
eats till l can ct no moh and then
| thinks l want somthin ter drink
and so l asks de grape owner for a
bottle OBJ jes de fresh juice and he
say he is all out OBJ de fresh juice
but he had some in de cellar what
was jes few days oil, Wal, l
knew l wouldn' lax it as well as de
fresh juice, ut l took two bottles
anyway. They warnt labled and
it was closing up time. de clerk
didn't even wrap EN-, wal, l started
out wild one boottle under each
arm and every pusson what seed me
jes looked their eyes out, so l jes
quietly slips EN- under nah coat.
, Wal, when l was gettn' a transfer
down town, a green-eyed cop coome
up ter nah and said, Hans up,
Niger, and l say, 'yoh poor ig'rant
cop, don't yer see l cawn't hold
nah hands up jes dis minute, wait
till / set desc two bottles down an
III will, but mark you ] amt stole
muffin from no one an ! amt got but
three pennies If - 'Then he got
a little huffy and he grabbed one
OBJ de bottles and said, you bold
faced niger, what have you got in
4, heah?' and / pcrtly tole him twar-
mt none OBJ his business, and den
he got madden than ever and he tole
me to quit sassin' him and l was
bound ] wasn't goin ter let no
white trash run over me-" "So
+, finally he tole me to march along
and l tole he wasn't big enuf ter
march me and o, he sho' got ma i.
1, Den he glewed a whistle and rouu
de conan came another cop. Wal,
dey brot me to de court house befoh
de Judge. Then we had another
fight. The cops a sayin' I was i'm
pertinent and-and tried to get
away, an then l jes tole dat Judge
how l wasn't a botherin' de COPS
and they hadn't any business a
botherin' me- "And then he
opened one OBJ de bottles and each
one tasted it an they had ter drink
a glass full a piece before they
could taste it an one bottle was all