Judge — February 4, 1888 — page 5: what you’re looking at

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JUDGE 5 THE REV. CICERO SMITH. He Learns How Sharper than a Serpent's Tooth it 1s to Have a Thankless Listener * De gemman in de daak uges dat ‘vented a pry an’ yelled fo’ a place toe stan’ on an’ wanted de job ob movin’ de hin’ de times, my ah-bredd remarked the R Cicero Smith troduction to hr Whi driftin’ ¢” for lisown behoof in the church of the chosen fe times * set hit rollin’. An toe stan’ lef fo'ty miles mady fo" use. tern, ‘semble Link 1 heal yo" inqu' wlookin’ at de wagon wen we might jist ez well be int Lonce met a man dat spent a week in aliguin’ dat ef Moses ud wbean hid inde woods insted « in de bullrushes wbean foun’ by de tah. But dat ain't ne dat amet got head an’ t My breddren mes ud bean hid inde dautah, lecture on ** f he ud foun’ a 7 vn de with he ud away befo' he got ‘is pry We. my bredde is man ud awent I instid ob in swimmin’ bean foun’ jis’ de same. ahgument, We ‘cline toe much, my breddern an’ much fo" sistern, toe imitatin’ eddah peo ple. De oddaly day T read dat a man down in Mississippi wile 1 well foun’ a spring ob all he had toe do war to chuck in sugah an’ dar lemon jnie tek g. DEN GAO putty vlgh eben Now, Goliah. sposin’ I git de saddle an’ we “He war behin’ de ‘A CASE OF RECONSTRUCTION. “He's Jes’ a triftle sprung bebaind, but ‘r reek'n *r kin cua dat.” war his lemonade. Now ef dis con'guti TIL bet de collection dat ull be took up. match dat’s bean struck dat all ob y Dat’s de trouble. Yo" ud strike watah, but yo’ ud hab toe pu’cha lemons ez well ez yo" sugah, an’ de time an’ labah yo! ud spen’ tr: toe coax somebody else's luck toe light on yo’ picks an’ shovels ud buil’'a meetin’-house. Dar’s toe little ‘ri shen el I read de oddah day money fi in Wash'n’ton dun git pizened But how many ob yo" heah, my ah-bruddern fom han’lin’ greenbacks fo’ feah od pizen ie Smith paused for a reply; but it y the clouds move in the hea’ the Chosen Few were shut. awered himself, with a look of pity at the Paidon me, sah,” remarked a sick the chy he rose and signalled the hailing a horse-ear two blocks away. “poun’ a pussnel quesyun, sab.” 1 war all down in Mississippi “en [clude my lekeha agin a "ud go toe diggin’ fo’ lemonade. ‘bon faces before hin ellow man in the ‘turer as though ahdon me, but ['d Tait ae aun’ away,” replied the sar, as he toyed with his in Com han'lin’ greenbacks yo'se'f ‘ease sumun dun got pizened wid um ¢” This query from the sickly-yellow man was made angrily and ina loud voice nan dat ami ’stu’bin’ a ull sitdown T'll an- sah “im, The quest at Tdun | clugyman obah dis. yer ‘se a'n't sot eye on a greenback in ‘f dat perud. De deekins ull now a pass de baskets, an’ ef de bradder w’o hab distu’bed de flow ob 1 idees on * Wha’ ah we driftin’ ‘Tur ucLe—" This reconstruction business has goon far enough! long distance target practice.” Here gues for sone comicbooks.com