Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1881 — How He Was Identified. [ARTICLE]

How He Was Identified.

Uncle Hose met a very dandified Houston darky, who used to live in Galveston, on Galveston avenue, and who said in a very dignified manner : “How do you enjoy dis balmy wedder, Bah ? ” “ I don’t know you, sah. You has me at a disadvantage,” responded Mose. “You cussed ole bow-legged, lanternjawed gorilla, yer is de same ole muttonheaded baboon yer allers was.” “ Now I knows yer. As soon as yer quit talkin’ like a gemman I knowed yer right off,” and they embraced like Blucher and Wellington on the field of Waterloo, —Qulveston Newt, . . .