PERHAPS SHE HAD.
A colored "auntie" seeing the child of a white acquaintance for the first time, exclaimed:
"Law, massa, how like she is to you! She done got all yore symptoms."
Two negroes were fighting on a wharf in a little Southern town, and although apparently desperate in their intentions, the actual fighting was rather mild. A timid bystander, not accustomed to the harmlessness of such fights, and fearing that the under man would be seriously hurt, called out:
"Let him up. Can't you see you'll hurt him?"
At this both the negroes burst out laughing, and the one on top cried:
"Yah! yah! Let him up! Why, boss, Ise had too much trouble to git 'im down. Hi! hi!"
Teacher. "What is the principal product of value derived from the seal?"
Johnny (unhesitatingly). "Sealing-wax."
"Ma, where is Atoms?"
"Athens, you mean, my boy; don't you?"
"No, ma'am; I mean Atoms; because when a person is in a boiler explosion, they always say he is blown to Atoms."