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What Mistah Trouble Did

  • Author: Washington Star
  • Editor: B-7413
  • Newspaper: The Umpire volume 5
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  • Date: 3 29 1916
  • Tags:
  • poetry
  • minstrelsy

WHAT MISTAH TROUBLE DID Ol' Mitsah Trouble, he came aroun' one day An' say, "I gwinter git you, so you better run away! I likes to see you hustle. Dat's de way I has my fun I knows I kin Ketch up to you, no matter how you rin!" I says "Mistah Trouble, you has been chasing me Ever since I kin remember, an' I'se tired as I kin be. So I'se gwinter stop right yere, an' turn around, a-facing you, An' lick you if I kin, an' fin' out jest what you kin do." Ol' Mitstah Trouble, he looked mightily ashamed; He acted like a buckin'-hoss dat's suddenly been tamed; An' den he turned an' traveled off, a hollerin,' "Good day; I ain't got time to fool around wif folks dat acts dat wat." —Washington Star.