"What is this about your cabbage patch?" inquired a neighbor of the negro. "I understand you have sold it for $20,000."
"Yas, that's true, boss," replied the negro. "Yo' see, men come picking round my place an' dey say dar's oil heah. Dey say, 'We gib yo' $20,000.' I say 'All right.'"
"I am told if you had waited a day or two you might have sold it for $40,000?"
"Yas, dat mebbe so; but a bird in the hand's th' nobles' work of God!"
AN ENDLESS CHAIN
A lady who was visiting the home of a friend had just given each of the children a penny. When the savings bank was produced and the coins were deposited therein, the lady made the remark that the children had a lot of money.
"Oh, yes," said little Mary. "Mamma is very good to us. Every time we take our castor oil without crying she gives us a penny."
"And what do you do with all the money?" asked the visitor.
"Why, mamma buys some more castor oil with it!"
IT WOULD DEPEND