Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1898 — He Was There. [ARTICLE]

He Was There.

Some visitors in Virginia hired an old negro on a plantation to drive them to see the Natural Bridge. So says the Toronto Saturday Night. On nearing the bridge they asked the colored man its height and width, and if he really thought It such a wonder, after all. His replies were so vague that one of them said: ' “Now, Sam, confess; you have never been so near the bridge before.” "Lord, suh!” he replied, "I ’member coming here to help de day dey lay de corner-ston’; but I ain’t teck notice ’bout how high de bridge was built, nor how far ’cross ’twuz. Of co’se, 1 ain’ come heah much sence; but dis nigger never goin’ to forglt dat day."