Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1884 — Colored Mendacity. [ARTICLE]

Colored Mendacity.

There was a largo boiler of scalding waiter over a fire in the yard and several black imps playing near it. Suddenly a 3hrill voice was heard from inside the fehanty: “You, George Washington, keep away from dat ar biler, D’rectly you is gwine -ter upset de biler and scald yerself to def, an’ when you is, you’ll be de fust one to say, * ’Twasn’t me, mammy!’”— Texas Siftings.