Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1955-06-18
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BY PERCY GREENE

PARISH STREET SATURDAY
NIGHT: My grandma used to tell
me that anytime you see folks
going around digging holes for
somebody else to fall in if you
watch 'em close they'd be the first
to fall in the hole thought
about what grandma used to say
while | was setting down eating
my fish and drinking my beer, and
listening at one of the weaker sex
of Aine Haggar's Chillun predict
ing bout what was gonna be
done to her ex-friend by her hus-
band when she gifts through tell
ing him bout what she had heard
which reminded me again of
Grandma who in her own words
use to tell me that the deepest
holes dug for folks was dug by
folks with the picks and shovels
of what dey heard and al
though that was way back FOUNDER
when l was a boy Aine Haggar's
Chillun is still digging the deepest
holes for one another wild what
they heard then she'd start
to admonishing me bout talking
bout what I'd done heard, instead
Of talking bout what | knowed
which she said was mostly what
you bad seed wild your own eyes.
which | have since learned is some
thing what amt always what II
looks lack it is . . So while
was setting there drinking my
beer and eating my fish | thought
I'd write down here and tell Aint
Haggar's Chillun that's still got
ears to hear, lack the old song
saws, Be careful what yot
say and how you say it :.
cause lack my grandma used te
say, Folks who go around dig
cling holes for other folks to fal
into . is most lackley to be
the fust one to fall in the same
hole that they was digging fol
somebody else to fall into -.
LISTENING TO THE HEP
KATS: They say Old Melvin Jones
thinks he done got slick enough
to slip off and git in the class
wild his old friend Cleve, down at
the Ice Cream Parlor, who got
married and set up housekeeping
not so long ago.
THE DUKE OF PARISH &
HAMILTON: He's back home now
and doing alright you amt
seen him in the last few days be-
cause he went to the hospital a fe"
days ago for a major operation =
Good luck fellow.
BALKED DESIRE: They say
all the hep chics setting around the
luke boxes trying to get to hear
one of them love soothing tunes OF
Nat King Cole, are some of them
soul tingling blues don't git the
kats to give lack they used to
since the records spinners went
up from nickle to one for q
dime, or three for a quarter.
THEY SAY THE FUR FLEW
From what | can hear the fun
really flew up at Greenwood last
week at the state Elks meeting
during the election of the State
President where Fred Miller was
beaten for reelection after a relgr
of more than 20 years by a young
fellow named Cockrell, backed BY
Bill Edward Lee. incidentally
none of the Grand officers, SONS
of whom promised to come as mucf
as three-months ago showed III
for the meeting, and some folks
say they might have been fright
ened off their speech making by
all that publicity about Rev. =
w. Lee at Belzoni.
DON'T MAKE ME- LAFF: Two
women talking, one on the overly
buxom side and the other decidedly
skinny Child, what you NEAR
said the buxom one If womer
can come down the streets II
shorts that two little cant
see no harm in women coming
out in the streets in shorts be-
cause folks says they is too big
WEEKLY QUOTATION: every
revolution by force only puts more
violent means on enslavement into
the hands of the persons with the
power" Tolstoy.
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