Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 May 1887 — Letters Which Are Passed Around. [ARTICLE]

Letters Which Are Passed Around.

“How many times to-day have you inquired for a letter for Lucinda Johnson?” queried the lady at the deliveryw.ndow of a colored girl about 10 years Old. “Ten times, missus.” “And didn’t I say there was no letter?” “Yes’m.” “Well, why do you come so often ? We don’t have a mail from Chicago every half hour.” “I know it, but ma reckoned dis yere letter come in two days ago an’ dat some odder ’Cinda Johnson had dun got it an’ read it an’ brought it back. You see, dar’s twenty-four’Cinda Johnsons in Detroit, an when dar’s a letter fur any of ’em it has to sorter go around. I’ll be in agin dis eavenin’.”— Detroit Free Press.