Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 May 1884 — “Ease Why.” [ARTICLE]

“Ease Why.”

Going np town from the depot at Macon, a negro who stood gazing fixedly at a poster on the bill-board halted nrts and said: “Say, boss, I want to ax a question or two.” . -s. • “ All right—drive ahead.” , “Heah’s a bill wid a pictur’ of a hoss on it, bnt I can’t read any of de lines. Am it a ’vertisement of a circus or a hoss race ?” “Why do you ask ?” “Ease why, sah, if it am a circus I’ze gwine ter begin ter glance around arter fo’ bits to f>ay my way in, and if it’s a hoss race I’ze gwine to put up three razors agin a pair of butes an’ try an’ git dese ole hoofs off de cold groun’.” “It’s neither one nor the other,” I replied after reading the bill. “This is the advertisement of a new liver-pill.” “Lands alive! but I want to know dat, too 1 Reckon de man might pay me $1 a day to stand on de squar’ wid him an’ awaller ’em down, to show de public dat day’s no humbug \”-r-Detroit Free Press.