Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1882 — Earning a Livelihood. [ARTICLE]

Earning a Livelihood.

“You are a brute, and if the law allowed me to do so I would have fortv lashes rut on your bare back. You not only refuse to provide for your family, but yon beat your w fe b?s : de,” was the language used by an Austin Justice to a burly negro. “Boss, you has g > dis heah case mightily mix< d up in yer

head. I owns up to beatin’s my wife, but I does it outen pure kindness.” “A strange sort of kindness, indeed.” “Yer see, Jedge, es I didn’t beat her and make her howl like de mischief de kindhearted neighbors would stop bringing her good things ter eat and gibben her clothes and de like. Data de way I pervides for my family, Jedge.” — Texas Siftings.