Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 September 1891 — He Was Hungry. [ARTICLE]

He W as Hungry.

An old timo darky walked into Kinsley’s the other day and sat down to a table. A colored waiter approached him and said, “Boss, you kain’t git no dinnah in dis place.” “Kain’t git nuffin to eat?” exclaimed the old fellow. “Wha’ sou is de reason dat a liongry man kain’t get no dinnah in dis place?” “Kasc,” was the reply, “we doan serve cullud folks. Marster Kinsley doan bleebe in soshul equality ob de races. ” “Dat’s right,” answered the old man, “dat’£ right, neither does I. Some niggahs am bettah than some white folks, an’ some udders agin, boef white an’ black, am too blamed triflin’ tb lib. Yes, sah, ise wid Marster Kinsley on dat p’int, so you kin jess bruni ' erlong dat dinnah, quick as you kin, lease I’se pow’ful hungry.” “You doan unnerstan’, uncle,” explained the waiter, “you doan unnerstan’; hit’s kase he boss doan bleebe in soshul equality dat he’s done gib orders dat no culled folks kain’t eat here.” “Yas, but hold on, honey,” broke in the odd darky, “I didn’t come in heah atter no soshul equality; I come in heah kase I’se hongry. I doan want a dish of soshul equality; no, say; jess plain po’k an’ beans ’ll do fo’ me.” “Kain’t help it, uncle,” answered the waiter who was now getting a little impatient. “Kain’t help it, and,” he continued, “you’d better be goin’ right now befo’ de head waitah sees yoh, frelse dere’ll be trouble.” The old fellow got up and, without a word, started for the door; but as he went down the’feteps he was heard talking to himself afther this fashion: “Dese white folks mighty cu’ious, ’pears ter me. Jess kase a poor niggah’s hongry, an’ wants a bite ter eat, dey think he’s after soshul equality. 1 1 didn’t go in dat place kase dey wuz white folks in dar, but kase I ■wanted my dinnah. I didn’t ax no white man ter jine me, an’ no white man didn’t ax me ter jine him. No, sah,” he concluded with emphasis. “When a cullud man is huntin’ his he hain’t keerin’ so much erhout, soshul equality as he am erbout -dinnah; but dese white folks doan *pear ter see it dat way. ” Load a man with dollars and oftentimes you will drive out his sense.