Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1884 — Plantation Philosophy. [ARTICLE]

Plantation Philosophy.

De chile what yer takes de mos’ care ob is de one what is de mos’ apt ter git hurt. A man always mashes his sore finger.-^ 2 It is a ole sayin’ dat one bird in de han’ is wuth two in de bush. It may be wuth more ter de man, but it ain't wuth half as much ter de bird. . In youth we has appetite, an’ in ole age de rheumatiz, an’ in a mighty heap ob instances de indulgence ob one is de cause ob de udder. I knows, kase if I hadn’ter got drunk an’ laid out in de woods, dese, ole jints wouldn’ter been Dar ain’t no way dat yer ken make a ’oman madder den by goin’ inter de house an’ turnin’ ober de chmhi. I once knowejl a mighty ’ligious cullud ’oman dat wanted ter pray all de time. One day a preacher come along an’ she axed him ter pray fur her. De ole man, feeble in years, got down on his knees, but in de skufile necessary te? fixin’ hisself, ’case de suppleness ob de boy wan’t in him, he turned de churn ober, an’ de ’oman forgot her ’ligion an’ broke de dasher ober his head.— Arkansaw Traveler.