Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1887 — Plantation Philosophy. [ARTICLE]

Plantation Philosophy.

Men an wimin is diffunt, but putty much all boys is erlike. It ain’t whut er man is dat makes him happy in dis yere worl’. It’s whut he thinks he is. Folks may talk ez much ez da please erbout all people bein’ created ekul, but it ain’t er sack. De game chicken’s meat is better den de Shanghai’s. Ez we git old we kain’t do nigh so much work ez we could w’en we wuz young, but it peer like we do it better. De apples on er young tree grows bigger den da do on er ole tree, but da ain’t so sweet. It is er mighty hard matter fur us ter see de bad p’ints in er thief dat is willin’ ter lend us money, ur de good p’ints in er honest man dat hab ’fused ter do us a favor. Dar ain’t er weaker raskil in dis yere worl’ den human natur’.—Arkansaw Traveler.