Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 290, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1920 — Higher Mathematics [ARTICLE]

Higher Mathematics

Sambo—Say, Rastus, if yo* saw five chickens in a yard and yo’ pinched one, how many would be left? Rastus —Dere’d be fo’ left Sambo —Ho, ho, dat’s de joke. Dem fo’ see yo’ ugly face and fly away. Rastus —(after much cogitation)— Dem fo’ fly away, yo’ say? Sambo—Yassah. ’At’s what Ah said. Rastus—Well, den, didn’t dey leave? Wasn’t dey fo’ left?—American Legion Weekly.