Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 December 1883 — Plantation Philosophy. [ARTICLE]

Plantation Philosophy.

Bar’s some little truth eben in de bigges’ lie, eben es it is no more den de sack dat it is a lie. Poverty o’ body is bad, but poverty o’ mine is wus. I doan feel as sorry fur a po’ sensible man as I does for a rich fool. Be wust whuppin’ dat a man eber gits is done by a coward. Pen up a suappin’ cur an’ he ken whup all de dogs on de plantation, 12—|— Wid me, de ole man is more 'tractive den de boy. Be go]’ dat’s on a leaf jes’ arter de fust frost is puttier den do green on de leaf jes’ airter spring opens. Be sack dat a man is useful ter de curmnnity doan make him a ’zirabie member of s’ciety. We couldn’t liardly git along widout de buzzard, yet I doan hanker airter ’aoeiatin’ wid him. De mourners’ bench would do mo’ good fur de nigger es de? was fewer groans an* mo 1 saft soafran’ raia water dar. Fse seed many a nigger top dirty ter go t6r a dance, but I never seed one too dirty to Toss ’ligion. * . } Bar’s two kines o’ men what doan do business de right way: De man what ain’t got time enough an’ de man what’s got too much; fur de man what ain’t got time enough, rushes throngh wid de work, an’ de man what’s got too much time, waits tall it’s too late.— Arkansaw Traveler. A half-sick man is the sickest kind ofamaa. / J - - --i i,.--, * ■'^ T-'iM. i • ti. «■ .