"THE NAUGHTY BOY."—From the Painting by C. T. Garland.
[ANDREW JACKSON WASHINGTON JONES.]
AS BLACK AS BLACK COULD BE.
Andrew was quite as black a little colored boy as if he had been well painted, and his mammy was in the habit of telling him that he was as lazy as he was black, a fact which Andrew Jackson never took the trouble to deny.
He had not a very clear idea of the proper definition of the word lazy; but even though he never made any attempt to correct the error into which his mother had fallen, he believed he could point out at least a dozen boys who were really indolent, while he was only what might be called tired.