Ax old negro approached, a white man in a Southern town and asked: "Morse Tom, you ain't seed anything of dat ole mule of mine, is you "Why no, Henry, I haven't seen that mule, Have you lost it?"
"Well, Ah dean know of Ah've lost him or not, but he is shore duff gone."
"Henry, I think the best way you can find that mule would be to put a want ad in the paper for him."
"Shucks! Dat wouldn't do no good, Morse Tom."
"Why not?"
"Why, Morse Tom, you all know püflckly well dat dat mule can't read."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.