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It Tasted Good Still

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Parent Issue
Day
26
Month
August
Year
1897
Copyright
Public Domain
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Some llvely college girl, no doubt from the sunny south, relates In Üie Wellesley Magazine a novel varlatlon upon the theme, long popular wlth the "funny man" of the newspapers, especlally at Thauksgiving time, of the llttle boy who wants to eat mera than he can. Llttle Sammy, on the porch of the great house of the nelghborhood, had Just inquired Inslnuatlngly: "Didn't de white folks have lce-cream fo' dlnnah, Miss Kate?" Thls small negro reminder of happy "fo'-de-wah days" had never pleaded wlth me la valn for goodles, proceeds the narrator. Very soon he had eaten a full saucer of cream, whlch I had glven him, and with the spoon poised on a stlcky fore-flnger, was looking at me wlth eyes that begged for more; and he got It, even to the thlrd saucer. I watched hlm UU I foii to dreamlng agaln, and my eyes sought the rlver. Only the cllnk of the spoon agalnst the saucer and a satisfled slgh now and then broke the stlllnese of the southern summer day. Presently all was qulet, and I looked round to flnd happy Sammy with the most dlsconsolate expression on hls face, hls head turned a llttle on one slde, and hls eye flxed gloomily on about a quarter oí a spoonful of cream. $ "What is it, Sammy? Isn't it good?" "Yas'm," in a sad tone. "Then why don't you eat It? Have y ou got enough?" He lookfvl at me, ae he atralghteaeí up and unbottoned the litUe worn jacket. "Yas'm," he stghed, "got 'nough ev'y whar 'cept my mouf!"

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Ann Arbor Register