Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1885 — Plantation Philosophy. [ARTICLE]

Plantation Philosophy.

De narrer-minded man totes a short string by which he measures de good qualities o’ de men whut he meets, but his own good p’iuts he measures wider cloze line. De insecks is sometimes got more sense den a man. When yer sees er pusson foolin’ ronn’ er ho’net’s nest, jer may know dat de pusson, ’stead o’ de ho’net is er makin’ er mistake. It ain’t bo’n in some folks ter be hones’. Doan’ make no difference how much er duck ’sociates wid chickens,

I nor no matter how for she lib from Wpter, soon ez she fin’s er puddle she’s gvine in dar. s , Rich folks has er cuis way o' ’beyin’ de Bible.. One day a hongry feller went ter a well-fed man’s house,! an’ say, says ze, " 'member de po’.” “Oh, I ain’t forgot yer,” says de well-fed 1 man, says ze. “No, ssh* I ain't’forgot ; yer. INI alius recolleck yer, but dat’s alL* —Arkansaw Traveler.