Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 April 1884 — Didn’t Want Any. [ARTICLE]

Didn’t Want Any.

A colored man who had acquaintance with one of the stall-keepers at the Central Market hung around for half an hour the other day before saying: “ See yere, boss, I ..wants, to ax ye a queshun or two.” “All right.” “I kin get my household furncher insured for $400.” “Yes.” “ An’ it won’t cost but $3. ” “Well?” “ Wallt ’spose I had dat furncher insured an’ de house should catch fiah an’ eberyting burn up ? ” • 3 “In that case, my colored brother, you’d be jerked into jail so quick that your head wouldn’t have time to swim, and from the jail you’d go to State Prison for at least ten years. ” “What fur?” “ Why, for setting the fire.” “Am dat possible? Wall, Ize werry much obleeged to yer, ap’ Ize made up my mind to save de $3 an’ let de S4OO go.”— Detroit Free Press.