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The Old Man Died Happy

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Day
3
Month
May
Year
1893
Copyright
Public Domain
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A colored boy carne over to the depot and said his grandfather was very low and wanted to speak to a whlte man before li'.' dled, and so I went acrosg the streel to a tumbledown cali u to hear what he mlght liave to s;.y. A very ancient and venerable looklng negro was lylng on a couch. and íns aged wlfe sal wlplng her eyes beside hm. When I asked what I could do, the oíd man said : "Whlte man, I'ze got to díe. I nebber dun seed but one circus in all my 'n days, an' I wanted to see another inighty bad, but I'ze got to go. 1 was Jest hangln' on all lasi y'ar, but no circus dun cum dis way." "And what did yon waní to ask me .'"' I querled, "I wanted to if dar was any clrcuses up In heaben ? lí dar'a golden streets, an' harps, an' folkses, why han't dar (cuses ton ?" "Tlicrc may be," I replied, as i -: a nod from the oíd woman. "Will de prlce ol admlshun be fo' bits, same as !ovn yere ?'' he anxiously Inqulred. "I Bhould think not. The pertormance ought to be free." "Glory me ! An' plenty h' room fur cuim folks V ■ "Heaps of it. and a performance every afternoon and evenlng." 'Glory ! Glory ! It'e all rlght nou : I'ze mighty willin' to be tooken any minit ! Good-by, mamniy .' Lawd bress yo', white man ! Cali iu de folkses, Lucinda, an' let me bid 'eni good-by, fur befo' the sim goes down dis eabnin' 111 be in de promieed land, an' hev a front a front seat whar I kin watch de hull performance !" The train was tuo houre late, and iré I fíot out of town the boy carne over to say that lírandaddy liad -sed from earth away.

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Old News
Ann Arbor Courier