A MATTER OF ARRANGEMENT.
A teamster charged with using loud and profane language on the street, was brought before a police magistrate, and one of the witnesses was an aged colored man.
“Did this man use improper language?” inquired the lawyer for the prosecution.
“Well, sah,” replied Uncle Ans, “he did tawk mighty loud, sah.”
“And did he indulge in profanity?”
The witness looked puzzled but did not answer, so the attorney tried again.
“What I mean, Uncle Ans,” he said, “is this: did he use words that your minister could use in a sermon?”
“Oh, yessah, yessah,” answered Uncle Ans, with a grin; “de ministah could use dem word, sah, but he suttinly would hab ter errange dem different.”