"Why, gintlemen, at me mother's knee I was taught to sing that inspirin' song: 'Columbus, the Jim of the Ocean'!"
Whereupon there was loud applause.
GIVE HIM TIME
Mr. Johnsing had an enthusiastic admirer in Little Eph Jones.
"Yes, suh," he concluded one of his eulogies, "Mistuh Johnsing is the biggest man what evuh was."
"Bigger than General Grant?" queried the white man to whom he was talking.
"Suttinly Mistuh Johnsing is a bigguh man than General Grant," affirmed
Eph.
"Bigger than President Wilson?"
"Of co'se he's bigguh than President Wilson."
"Bigger than God?"