Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 December 1901 — Where Tennyson Wasn’t Popular [ARTICLE]

Where Tennyson Wasn’t Popular

A poetical traveler, stopping at a Georgia Inn, dismounted from his horse and called to the landlord, who was lounging on the veranda: Wrinkled ostler, grim and thin Here is custom come your way; . Take my brnte and lead him inStuff his ribs with moldy hay! “Es you say that ag’in,” said the landlord, “I’ll lam you side the head with this hickory. Thar’s a nigger here to look after the horses!” - “My good man,” explained the traveler, “I meant no offense. 1 was only quoting Tennyson to you.” “Hang Tennyson!” exclaimed the landlord, “an' tell him I said so. Neither him nor you kin make a stable boy o’ me.”—Atlanta Constitution.