Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1955-07-30
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Bv PERCY GREENE

NIGHT: Back yonder when | was
boy the old folks used to quiet
a youngun who they thought was
talking too much by saying, 60
set down now you done run-out,
and after such a putting-back-in-
Misplace twas a long time before
the youngun could git up nerve
enough to butt-in on another con-
versation goin-on 'mongst the old
folks l got to thinking about
how the old folks used to squelch
the younguns back in them days
whilst | was eating my fish and
drinking my beer, and got to think
ing bout Aine Haggsr's Chillun
and wondering if they Amt bout to
git to the place by talking too
much and talking as if nobody was
right but dem where other folk'll
start thinking that we done run
out and lack it used to be back
when the old folks used to say, 60
set down now you done run-out
it's hard to git a good start after
then on that same subject, and it
was back there that / learnt that
you kin do too much talking bout
the same thing and git your
self where wont nobody be paying
taintion to what you say -. from
what reads in the papers it looks
like some folks is trying to throw
out some hints to Aine Haggar's
Chillun before folks that we is
talking to be looking but not lis
tening, which will be lack the old
saying bout talk falling on deaf
ears and bout talk falling on
deaf ears that means that folkll
be hearing what you say but that's
all =. and when you doing a lotta
talking and folks jest hearing what
you say and doing nothing bout
what youse talking bout that's the
same as the old folks used to do
the younguns and what they meant
when they used to say with an air
of complete that's all' go
set down now .. you done run
out kept on eating my fish
and drinking my beer after | was
fust hit by that thought, seeing
that I'm always thinking bout the
members of the tribe, and it stayed
with me whilst l listened to the
members of the tribe in town from
here, there, and yonder all talkin
bout the same thing, and looking
lack for the most part that they
done run outta breath, which is the
chief substance of most of the
talking that you hear if you listen
close enough to a crowd of Aine
Haggar's Chillun talking now-o-
days . =. breath being no substi-
tute fer brains talking out of
plentitude of breath without much
strain on the brains kin last a
long time, but even that kinda
talk kin run-Out . what got me
most worried as | thought more
was what is Aine Haggar's Chill
lun gonna do bout the things that
theys all talkin bout now, when
the folks that theys talking to git
tired of listening and lack the old
folks back yonder says Go set
down, you-alls done turnout now.
/ THAT OLD BIRD A SAD
Note: That old bird that carries
| in his bill that little old family
cementing and heartwarming bun
die, left its first one for young
Attorney and Mrs. Sidney R. Tharp
last Wednesday. 1t was six
pound boy, who died several hours
after birth. Their friends will
! join me in extending sympathy,
and wishing them many other, and
more happy returns Of the Old
Bird with the little bundle.
NEWS FROM ABROAD: Got a
post card the other day from tai
ented Zee Barron, the Mound
Bayou lady with the beautiful
voice. The card from Cairo, Egypt
said that she was on the way to
! Damascus, Beirut, and had already
been to Rome, Athens and Paris.
She's on the Baptist World Al
lance Tour and says she's getting
wonderful experience. | know
she is.
BACK IN TOWN: Felix's up and
Town the Ole Avenue this week
have been happily greeting Mr..
and Mrs. Norris (Shine) Jones and
his wife Mary (tipping) popular
Parish Streeters before they left
20 make their home in the Big
Windy city.
HOMETOWN LURE: Two fell
ows that used to play under the
'oal shute what used to run from
Church to Hamilton street on the
C. Railroad, and wade in the
water when Town Creek would
let out Of its banks and cover
verifying from Capitol back to
hamilton Street, came back to the
Id home town for the first time
.fter being away 81 years. They
re Dorsey Beecham and Richard
1arshall, who now make their
lome in the Big Windy but
rho says they've never stopped
linking about the good times they
.sed to have and Of coming back
" tho old homo fOWn