OLD DARKY (to shiftless son)—"I hearn tell you is married. Is you?"
SON (ingratiatingly)—"I ain't sayin' I ain't."
OLD DARKY (severely)—"I ain't ask you is you ain't; I ask you ain't you is."
PARSON BLACK (sternly)—"Did you come by dat watehmelyun honestly, Bruddeh Bingy?"
THE MELON TOTER—"'Deed I did, pahson; ebry day fo' nigh on two weeks!"—Puck.
A Minneapolis laundress, a negro woman, patriotic supporter of the Red Cross, was among the thousands who witnessed a recent Red Cross parade in the Mill City in which fifteen thousand white-clad women participated. In telling a Red Cross worker how she liked it, she said:
"Lawdy, missus, it suttinly was a gran' spectacle. Nevah in mah whole life did I see so much washin' at one time."