READ ''CULLUD FUN" AND LAUGH THE DEPRESSION A\TAY

Well, folks, my book of "Nigger" stories, "CULLUD FUN" is on the press. By the first of August it will be in the mail to all its longing purchasers-first ordered, first served. So many friends from everywhere wrote in and said "PRINT IT" that I sent it right to the printer. It will be tastefully printed and attractively bound, and the price will be Two Dollars a Copy.

rn a way I hated a ;r ,r. * "*,"ryor,u has grown so glum of late, and laughs have become so scarce an article, that I hesitate to start everybody giggling for fear of the effect on their neryous systems. Because I'll tell you this much, that if you have a sense of humor and like "Nigger" stories, this book of "CULLUD FUN" will actually knock you kicking. It can't help it.

I love "Nigger" stories, get a world of "kick" out of telling them, and have been specializing in them all my life. I believe I know a good one when I hear it. And for more than 25 years I've been keeping a collection of the best ones that came along. Whenever I heard a nigger story, long or short, that appealed to me as unusually good, it went into my scrap book, just in note form.

Twenty-five years is a long time, and a lot of good stories have come to the mill in that time. But I kept them all. Of late years close friends have been urging me to put them into some sort of understandable forrn to preserve them. They said I had no right to keep this great collection of wit and humor in notation form, for if anything happened to me this greatest collection of stories would be lost, and I ought to put them in shape if only for my family and friends to possess.

Last fall I started turning these stories into typewritten form. At the end of 3 months steady writing I found I had just finished my "Nigger" stories, and that there wer€ enough of them for a fine volume. It occurred to me that this collection would be unique in itself. So I asked my readers for their opinions, and have a stack of letters a foot tall urging me to print them. So the book of strictly colored stories, "CULLUD FUN" is being born.

Of course I know nrr" ,"""; story-books usually are. I've bought scores of them and seldom found a laugh in a carload. Books of funny (?) stories are usually about the saddest things on earth. But I can't help believing that a collection of really wonderful stories, each one picked from a bushel of ordinary ones, and told in the way a story should be told, would be a treasure.

So you can order ,""r:"; i "",rt",rD FUN" right now, and will get it in a short time, hot off the press. But remember, I warned you. Unless you want to laugh your fool head off, don't read it ! If you want to hang on to your scowl and your grouch-stay away frorn "CULLUD FUN" ! Ill guarantee there are a milliori laughs within its covers ! As a matter of fact I'm afraid that if too many people read'it we'd be in a danger of losing this highly prized and well advertised depression ! And wouldn't that be tough?