Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1955-03-26
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BY PERCY GREENE

FARlSH STREET, SA UhDA
NIGHT: | was setting down eat
ing my fish and drinking my beer
when | was aroused from the mel
lowness that had attained by
some fellows in an argument about
who's the easiest to fool, and |
listened to the various pros and
cons of what was going on know
ing Aine Haggar's Chillun to want
git-by, which is one way of fool
ing folks, to see what could hear
hat would continue to confirm my
action that 'mongst Aine Haggar's
Chillun as they gather around their
favorite spots of Satdee, freed from
the daily chores, there are depths
of thinking and gems of wisdom
fit for the learned doctors of phi
losophy, with the differences being
that Aine Haggar's Chillun gener-
ally give 'em the practical appi-
cation 'ather than the theory treat
ment. Well, the talking kept-on
as | kept on looking and listening,
till some fellow comes up with an
illustration that was far from the
point at issue but what sounded
lack something good to tell about
Up and Down Parish Street, which
illustration went lack this =.
There was two monkeys up in the
trees just jumping from limb to
limb and having the grandest time,
while there was a man over on the
mountain side with a gun besides
him laying in the shade sleep while
the monkeys played and played
and ate all the coconuts and every
thing while they watch the sleep
ing man never getting near enough
to 'em to wake him up, when along
come one of Aine Haggar's Chillun
who looked up on the mountain
side and saw the man asleep, but
just couldn't go on about his bust
ness and try to get everything he
could for himself while the man
with the gun was asleep, but went
up on the mountain side and saw
that the man was still asleep and
took out some matches that he had
in his pocket, stuck some around
the soles of the mans shoes and
hot-footed him, and started run
ming and laffing, when the man
woke-up and started searching
through the woods and watching
everything with his gun cooked on
his arm. One of the monkeys saw
the member of the tribe hot-foot
ing the man with the gun remarked
some people, some people, but the
other monkey said, Nav, Brother,
you means them peoples and
me, | amt stop thinking about
the story, knowing what Aine Hag
CARS Chilluns are up-agin now,
since | heard it !.
CHIP OFF THE OLE BLOCK,
What? Sidney Redmond back in
town committing twice or so a
month from St. Louis where he
makes his home, and where he is
a member of the Board of Alder
men, to supervise the million dol
lar estate, all dressed up in Docs
suits and a pair of his shoes stroll
ing up and down the Old Avenue
with folks saying now he's the
perfect image of his daddy.
ODE TO THE JACKSON AID
VOCATE: was standing on one
of my favorite corners along the
Ole Avenue when some folks who
knowed me but didn't see me was
talking about dem other papers"
and one of 'em said, can tell you
bout Old Brer Green's paper, what
you puts in there, and what you
sees in there amt jess throwed on
the Cullud Folks gallerys whats
scribed for de paper here in Jack
son but its seed and read all over
Mississipy, yonder in Chicago, out
in Los Angeles, in New York, and
most ebber-where
SOMETHING THAT MADE ME-
LAFF: All the hep kats up around
the Harlem-end of the Ole Avenue
was getting a big kick outta tell
ing it that they saw Fudge Moore,
King of the Parish Streeters, who
spends a lotta time down in Nat
chez, moving the other night. What
they wanted to know was how
come Bro. Moore waited til the
mite time to change abodes, if he
did
WEEKLY QUOTATION: "The
Constitution of the United States
was made not merely for the gen.
Grafton that then existed, but for
posterity, unlimited, underlined,
endless, perpetual posterity. -
Henry Clay.
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