Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 June 1889 — Didn’t Hit Him. [ARTICLE]

Didn’t Hit Him.

“Legislature went back on you colored folks pretty strong, didn’t it?” laughed a butcher to one of the whitewashers at the market yesterday. “How was dat, boss?” “Passed a law to hang any one who ‘lifts’ a chicken.” “Hu! Dat doan’ worry me.” “But you—you ” “No. sah! Not much! See whar I lost de eands of two fingers in a chicken trap sixteen y’ars ago? No use passin’ any laws in hopes to eotch my ole neck in a boose. I sticks right by bacon an’ codfish, sah.” —Detroit Free Press.