Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 April 1909 — He Would Have It. [ARTICLE]

He Would Have It.

An old negro woman on the eastern shore of Maryland was lamenting to the son of her former master in slavery days the fact that her race was getting so fond of chickens that they were turning up their noses at possum. “Why. do yob kno’, Mars’ Will.” she said, “dese newfangled niggers, sence dey got to goin* to Baltlmo’ an* other cities, come back down here an* makes out dey never did like possum. When I was young niggers was fonder of possum dan anything you could set befo’ ’em. But now it looks like niggers is run plum’ ’stracted es dey don’ git chicken. It’s chicken, chicken, chicken, all de time wld ’em! Well, I s'pose I ougbten talk ’bout it too mueh, for dat oldes’ boy of mine, Bin, he’s'dis ve’y minnit ’bout de fondes* nigger in de whole' county of chicken.” After a pause of several moments the old woman exclaimed. “Why, do yob know. Mars* Will, my Bill is dat run mad over chicken dat he’ll have It es he has to buy it!”—Harper’s. (

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