Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1890 — He Was Armed With Credentials. [ARTICLE]

He Was Armed With Credentials.

A colored man was going up a Detroit street the other evening with a watermelon in a wicker baby cart, When he encountered a patrolman and A once came to a standstill “Well?” queried the officer. “Well?” queried the negro. “I see you have a melon there. It being so early in the evening I shall not ” “Oh, I’ze all fixed fur dat, sah. Jist look a d»t” He pulled a paper from his pocket which read: “The bearer of this is O. K. He paid me forty cents for the accompanying melon. J. Blank, Grocer.” “H’m!” said the officer as he returned the paper. * ‘Hu I” echoed the colored man as he picked up his feet and moved on.