Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 266, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1912 — No Fraction Left. [ARTICLE]

No Fraction Left.

During the cotton-picking season in Texas a colored, brother who had . gone into the country to work returned very much disgusted. “Didn’t you git no offahs ter pick no cotton?” asked a friend. “Sech ez dey was. White man done* offered me one-third o’ what Ah could pick. Ah done tuk a look at de field an’ saw dat w’en it wah all picked it wouldn’t amount ter one-third. So Ah done lit out fer home!”