Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 103, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1901 — She Kept Within the Limit. [ARTICLE]

She Kept Within the Limit.

There is a story in the Boston Transcript about old black Joan, a mammy <*f the good old kind, who was warned at a critical period In the family fortunes not to tell all she knew to the smaller children. “Huh,” says Joan I scornfully, “tink I dunner how to talk fo’ dat blessed chile, dat 111 Cely? De Lawd knows”—and up in pious protest went the pupils of Joan’s eyes, and out swept two broad and floury palms from the pan of dough—“de Lawd A’mlghty knows I’s dat keerful wat I says to dat HI honey sweet, Illy white lamb er Gawd dat I ain’t neber yit tole her one single word ob truf.”