Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1891 — He Had Too Many Points. [ARTICLE]

He Had Too Many Points.

An old colored man entered the First Precinct station house the other day, says the Brooklyn Citizen, and remarked to the sergeant in charge: “Say, boss, dar’s er nigger libbin’ down my way dat or ter be taken car’ of.” “Why, what's the matter? What’s he been doing to you?” “Waal, sah, las’ fall I lent dat nigger my ax, an’ when I wanted it back he braced right up an’ tole me dat possession are nine p’ints o’ law, an’ refused to give ’er up.” “Well?” - “Waal, do'odder day I sent do ole ’oman ober, an’ she borrered his bucksaw, an’ when he cum for ’t I toie ’im jist like he tole me, an’ stood on rav dignity.” -■ “Yes?” “I had nine p’ints o’ law,didn't I?” “Yes.” “An" how many p'nts am de law composed of. ‘ “I don’t know exactly.” “Waal, dat’s what bodders me, fur, dat nigger saw den* nine p’ints, shet 1 up dis lef eye o’ mine, pitched de ole 'oman over" a bar’l, an’ walked off wid his saw an’ my snow shovel to boot. If I had nine p’ints he mus’ hev had ober twenty, an’ eben den he didn’t half let hissSlf out.”