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A Venerable Old Age

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Parent Issue
Day
6
Month
May
Year
1870
Copyright
Public Domain
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lowiug, from one wlio was tiar is vouched for by liira - that is, that the old lady made the reply given here, not tliat fche was quite 88 old uf sho claitned : When the Fifteenth Peuosylvauia Cavalry cntered the town of Dawson, Georgia, in the spring of 1805, among those who wcloomed tbem was a negro woman evhosa appearaiice deooteil extreme old age. Impclled by curiosity, ouo of the "boyb" rode up to her and askci!, "llow old are you, auDtie ?" "Wall, chile," she replied. "I don't 'xactly know how old I is, hut I was hore wbeu Clumbus come !" - Lippincott's Magazine.