Judge — March 20, 1886 — page 12: what you’re looking at

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From the animate to the inanimate, CUSSIO' LITTLENECK GREEN IS AGAIN OE FEATED. The late oceas' dictator debate de other put it cheerily, thawed o T lored coterie over which Old Choe JUDGE. | buckshot had do: > their fell work, But not Konke . Though the sage of th | pany was a few years the junior of Neverdi | he had hunted coons and ‘was inclined to be disputatious on the proposition d “Did I un'stan’ yo" toe ‘maak dat ‘coons wuz becomin’ extin he queried of the older Afr “Yissah,” responded Neverdie with em W's » Sah? aun, * queried Old Chocolate. doan’ see um no mo replied Neverdie. Dis er a good spec'men ob av'ri stid Old Chocolate, with a sneer. “Dar er jis’ ez many ‘coons now ez dar wuz club. nty yah, pt in mu seums,” | FM Mowanrs | wen yo" hunted um wid a lantert | Healy yo" is been libbin’ in de city tw an’ jis’ ‘ease yo’ doan’ run up ag yo'tu'n Ynah yo" tink extin apple am gittin’ sea’e OLD CHOCOLATE. NON THE "COON LEADS TO A DEBATE IN WHICH can't see awchard nex’ do’ toe de_pos"-oflice is full ob ‘coon is gittin’ toe lazy toe hunt.” an De woods De trouble am dat de niggah ally presides as moderator, umj d peac termine ht maker, as the ex ncies y the | the Hibernian reporter would The fire in the and as th ut they became as loquaciousas Old Chocolate’s last remark strained the golden cord of friendship that binds him tothe and threatened to transform the syt The word “nigger” | is tabooed in all polite colored society, unless | ner grocery blazed | cote loungers about the st posium into an emeute. vention of auctioneers, Old Chocolate sat on | abusive nomenclature is inorder, The younger l keg, which he had cushioned with a) Africans around the circle took the reference urskin cap, and seemed ready to talk on as a personal one, and murmured aloud. ject broached around the circle. Littleneck Green, the sole-leather colored he is per when I referee is “Tdun lips that sounded like the rustling of wrapping paper. “WI huh,” prise and like rippl trifugal disturba “Deed, in mo'n f times, chi frequent extink, ch To the endie was p nothing ¢ the pursu of the kin occasion sions aft usible, nsive, and awakens to member whom Old Che in a polit behalf. would almost be take nin the dark. } rnately a porter ina winter colle a summer steamboat man until he married an all-wool washer- woman who loves him too dearly to let him His acquired knowledge makes him Old Choc nist in controversy ntly worsted bridled up on their | aks so plainly that he | southern white words flow or his characte at sta » suffin’ yist’d’y wat wuz a sight remarked Neverdie Calhoun, the mpany, with a smack of his * wuz hit?” Yo" “Huh- d_ kindred evidences of interest, sur. ution ran round the around a pond after doan’ sa interre ing wave n- sah, continued th nt African after offensiv n't yo" use a little of t's pause, “my gran’da’tar dun took yo! own? Fust thing ow, it'll be gittin’ - dime museum, en’ dar I see a real rusty. We an't niggers hea’, sah, mo’en yo" ge. Fust ‘coon I'dun look at | are. Yo’ know ra we dat Mistah fo'teen yah. Make me tink ob old | Calhoun don’t haf toe hunt ‘coons fo’ a livin’, ill ‘coon wuz ez | an’ y gem'n hea’ is got mo’ profit’ble s now oon is gittin’ | wuck toe do, h whitewash fo’ a li hillen—extink. | an’ now city bred silhouettes who formed a | reckon of the company the statement of | hun that the “ becoming extinct ations in life. Napo- Their hunting experiences had | Jeon was a great soljah, but he wouldn't a been 4 the gamey flavor that attaches to | successful as a hoss jockey. Greeley was a| it of the ‘coon. The only excitement | great editah, but where would he a been as a | nd that had titillated them had been | telegraph operatah? Wo could a read his | 1 discoveries during nocturnal mis: | writin’? Vandahbilt was a great steamboat chickens in which bulldogs and | an’ railroad man, but he would a walked on | dump, an’ I ‘0 could by weit, sah, ds ro’ tote ashes toe d no" money dan Be m bawn fo’ fixed pons. * seem toe man GENEROSITY BEFORE JUSTICE. First Bottemiay— I say, Joe, I wish you would let me have back those five pounds you borrowed of me last week.” Secoxp Ditto— but it’s extent that I — First Ditto (happy thought)—“* Could you lend me five pounds?” Seconb Ditto (off his guard)— with the greatest pleasure in life the same.] Oh, my dear fellow—so sorry— T'm impecunious to such an mpossible. y dear fellow, [Forks out his uppers if 1 lightnin’-rod cases, sab. a'n't got no call toe hunt ‘coons.” John L, Sullivan is potent in pugilism, but if he were whipped to-morrow his friends would jump on him. The groce pplauded Littleneck and looked upon Old Chocolate as one who had at last been deposed as an oracle But the old man would not and a debater, down. Dis discusshen,” said he, hab drifted intoe adifentchannel. Westaated on’coons an’ now yo’ is talkin’ "bout suffin’ else. Thad de ‘coon question by de tail, an’ yo’ know hit. didn't mention any one heah ez a lazy niggah, but ef de color fits any body dey kin daub hit on. I disagree wid y ttleneck, on de oddah topic. O'dua'ly yo! is right az toe a man’s makin’ de mos’ ob w'at he'm fit fo’. Gin'ly speakin’, ef 3 pusson strikes de track dat nacha ‘tended um fo’ he runs ez slick ez a street ¢: he tum’les an’ jounces like a lui on acorduroy road, A shoemakah aclock, eratinkah shoe a hoss, toe be sho’. Butebery rule, gem'n, er got ‘ceptions, an’ a THE EVOLUTION OF THE DUDE. FUNNY FOLKS. comicbooks.com