Striking Resemblance — 462
An American, speaking of his niggers, said: “Cæsar and Pompey are so much alike that you can’t tell the one from the other, ’specially Pompey.”
Undoubted Courage — 463
“Sambo, you nigger, are you afraid of work?” “Bress you, massa, I no ’fraid of work; I’ll lie down and go asleep close by him side.”
A jeweller in Philadelphia advertises that he has a number of precious stones to dispose of, adding that they sparkle like the tears of a young widow.