Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 163, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1910 — An African Task Story. [ARTICLE]

An African Task Story.

A certain man had a most beautiful daughter who was beset by many suitors. But as soon as they were told that the sole condition on which they could obtain her was to bale out a brook with a groundnut shell (about half the size of a walnut shell) they always walked away in disappointment. However, at last one took heart of grace and began the task. He obtained the beauty, for the father said, "He who undertakes what he says will do it"—Burton’s "Negro Wit and Wisdom.”