Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 December 1881 — Children Half-Price. [ARTICLE]

Children Half-Price.

Uncle Mose refits out several shanties on Austin Avenue to colored tenants, some of whom exhibit a hesitancy about paying their rent. A few mornings since an ebon-hued boy of about nine years, the son of one of Mose’s tenants, brought him four dollars. “Your fodder owes eight dollars, boy. Whaffor you only fotcli me foah dollars? Wliar’s de odder half ob de rent?” * ‘But’s de berry reason he done send mo wid do money.” “What’s de reason?” “Belcnse.” “B. *kase what, you little fool niggah?” “Bokase childruns nebber pays more den half price,” sobbed the boy.—[Texas bis tings.