"I hate to bother you, miss," said the black cook, approaching her mistress the next morningBillie, by the way, was busily dusting the living-room with a very becoming dust cap perched on top of her pretty hair, "but this is mah day out.

Ah use tuh take mah baby an walk tuh El Dorado to sevice.

" "Well, seh, not to say mah wife.

Ah want on and ended mah prayer and yo know ah wuz a glad soul.

Well, le' me see: Firs',horhound drops an' catnip tea; Den rock candy soaked in rum, An' a good sized chunk o' camphor gum; Next Ah tried was castor oil, An' snakeroot tea brought to a boil; Sassafras tea fo' to clean mah blood; But none o' dem t'ings didn' do no good.

"'Mah boy, mah boy,' she say, 'Ah beatin' on yuh kase

Aftuh mah brudders foun out dat dey

Mah job mostly wuz tuh watch de chillun an feed mah mistress chickens.

Mah chinks all run out on de groun' an he tole mah brothah tuh pick um up.

Dat evenin when us stop pickin cotton ah took mah brothah down and taken mah chinquapins.

So mah cousin Sallie watched him hide de key

O you jolly black boy, Yod'lin' in de co'n, Callin' to yo' dawlin', In de dewy mo'n, Love 'er, boy, forevah, Yodel ever' day; Only le' me lis'n, As yo' sing away: "O mah dawlin'!

Then Merriwell's beautiful baritone voice pitched the chorus of a familiar negro melody, in which the triumphant and delighted freshmen joined: "Git erway from de window, mah love an' mah dove!

In de early mornin', Thoo de hazy air, Loud an' clear, sweet an' strong Comes de music rare: "O mah dovee, Who-ah!

Outside mah duties at this club ah happens to be a sho-nuff minister in the Firs' Cullud Baptis' Church.

Sometime mah laig gets so big ah jes had tuh sloop mah foot erlong.

Mah goodness, man, yo' done set everybody to running around like they was crazy!"

Now mah granchillun can all see hants and mah little great gran' chile too.

Mah grandaughter what lives up north in Missouri come down heah to visit mah son's fambly an me ah an brang huh li'l boy wid huh.

"Coase mah grandma and me had had some putty good races.

Didn nairy one uv mah gulls come in de pen till dey wuz mahried.

One time me an Elliott wuz drivin along an Elliott said: "Charley, somebody got hole uv mah horse!"

An' eveh hotel he seen, he sais, 'Yes, tha' she istha's mah hotel,' but the Mahstahs in th' hotels they all talk ve'y shawtly eveh time.

Lohks ve'y strongly lahk he ain't go'n' a' stop at mah implications.

Ah ain't gwine lose mah job jes' fo' dodgin' a ghos', is I?" "What did this fellow look like?" asked Gus.