Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 November 1885 — A Business with Her. [ARTICLE]

A Business with Her.

A careful housewife, upon entering her kitchen, said to the colored cook: “Great goodness, Jane, you must be more careful. You are not clean enough in your cooking.” “Lady,” replied the cook, as she took up a piece of beef that had fallen on the floor, “I sees dat yer’s gwine ter ack foolish wid me. Ain’t yer got nothin’ ter do ’cept ter fool out heah ?” “It’s my business to come out here occasionally.” “All right, den, hab it yer own way, but I wanter say one thing: Es yer wants to ’joy yesse’f at de table an’ eat wider ’cornin’ appertite, yer’d better stay outen dis kitchen. Yas,'’ she added, as she wiped a dish with a dirty rag, “yer’d better not nose roun’ heah, fur cookin’ is er bus’ness wid me, an’ when er pusson is ’gaged in bus’ness, foolishness is awful troublesome.”— Arkansaiv Traveler.