The Tramp’s Plea
“Good mornin’ this evenin’, how do you do tomorrow?”
“Got any good drinking water?”
“Would you mind giving a poor man a drink of liquor?”
“I’m so hungry, I ain’t got nowhere to stay all night?”
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“Dat may all be,” reckons Raspin’ Rastus, when told that the Good Book says the lion and lamb lie down together, “But ah cain’t fin’ no place where it says dat lamb eber got up.”
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