Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1953-11-28
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BY PERCY GREENE

FARISH STREET SATURDAY
NIGHT: | was setin down waiting
for my regular Satdee night hep
ping of hot fish and beer when |
heard a crowd of Aine Haggar's
Chillun talkin bout what dey read
up and down Parish Street bout a
chicken amt muffin but a bird
and while | listened at 'em my
mind went further into that high
wisdom put Of which somewhere
along the line Aine Haggar's Chill
lun found out that a chicken amt
nuffinbutabird. What they'd read
Up and Down Parish Street was
what I'd said about what | heard
about school and library, both
being where you go to learn some
thing, was only different in the
way that a chicken is different
from bird :. From what | read
in the papers about what this
that . and the other of our
great Negro Leaders says here late
ly, | was surprised when the folks
| heard talking started using the
same wisdom and profundity on
the current session of the state
legislature, and what they heard,
read or believed that the legisla-
ture was gonna do . wasn't gon-
ma do . and what it aughto do
Where the Chicken Amt nuf-
fin buta bird come in was when |
heard somebody in the crowd say
ing it looks lack us "Cullud Lead
ers" when dey talkin bout better
eddycashun fer us don't be talkin
bout muffin but building new build
ings, lacks as tho soon as'yer puts
up a new building wild some dem
concrete blocks covered over wild
some fancy colored plaster and
move in some new and used furni-
ture, and name the building after
the "Cullud Fessor," den eddycash-
I'm starts jumpin outter'n de walls
and dat Aine Haggar's Chillun
would be gittin eddycated show
huff if they jest had some more
buildings Somebody finally got
around to saying let de legislator
bill all the buildings for de White
and the Cullud Folks jess-the-lack,
and eff somebody don't say muffin
bout de books being jess-the-lack,
Aine Haggar's Chillun is lost cause
it amt no use'n nobody sayin \
school amt muffin but a building
Jess cause Aine Haggar's Chill
lun done found out that Chick
en- amt muffin but bird.
I'M WONDERING: If there is
anything too what they're saying
out in West Jackson about rapid
ly developing romance involving
Mrs. Sue McLinn Lewis, of the
Jackson Daily News "Cullud Page"
and a certain widely known local
preacher.
NOTE TO OLDTIMERS: One
of the better known of the Old
TYNE Parish Streeters was "B-
Flat" who most folks didn't know
whether he got his nickname from
the shape of his proboscis (nose
to you chump) or from the fact
that he played his piano number
mostly in that key, and whose |
progeny equalled that of Joe Lewis |
and my Brother-in-law, Sic Willies
Well, Mrs. Leola Banks, the
widow of B-Flat" had stroke
the other day and is confined to the !
bed at her home 1876 Lemly Alley. |
JUST GUESSING: If it is true
that the Landlord gave the boys |
up at the Palace Billiard Hall a
five day notice to vacate last weeks
was it because the rents was be-
hind or because they'd started a
new way of getting the money to
pay the rent?
SOMETHING THAT MADE Me
LAFF: That story they're telling
low about how some of Walter
Stewards Friends" starts trem-
,ling in the knees when they hear
saying what the Bible
says about "Be sure your sins will
ind you out"
THE BETTER BARGIN: The
sx-Mrs. Greene, and the ex-Boy
Friend Of Carrie Jennings, the Cab
Driving lady, are being seen to-
gether more and more now since
the two other ex's left town, and
everybody is saying that if it really
jells, the two that still here in
town got a whole lot the better
bargin.
WEEKLY QUOTATIONS" Men
are never so likely to settle ques-
ton rightly as when they discuss
it freely Macaulay.