After a brief reflection, Pompey replied:
"You see, massa, dat wouldn't never do, 'cause 'twould trow such a col'ness over de meetin'."
LOVE OF ACCURACY
Mark Twain had an aged negro servant, who some time ago celebrated his wedding anniversary by inviting in twelve friends to a 'possum dinner. Twelve by no means marked the extent of the servant's friends, and those unbidden to the feast concluded that, after all, they did not think much of it. One of the more progressive started the report that instead of 'possum the host served plain coons.
The next day Mr. Clemens said to the servant, "Jim, I've found you a truthful fellow. I want you to tell me honestly which you had for dinner last night, 'possum or coons?"
The old servant hesitated, but in an instant said, "Which do you mean, Mistah Clemens, on the table or around the table?"
NON-UNION LABOR
A bookseller in Oklahoma purchased a lot of books at a sale. Finding several sets of Charles Dickens's works in this stock, he decided to make a special price on them, so he put all of them in the large show window, with the following sign in very large letters:
"Charles Dickens Works All Week for Two Dollars."
A Kansas farmer who had drifted down that way walked up to this window. Reading the sign he said: