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"Even if it wasn't to the her he knew now, it was to the Marjorie of last year, and she was a near relation," thought the Marjorie of this year whimsically. So when Francis came back with the rest of her baggage he found her on the window-seat with the banjo in her lap, fingering it softly, and smiling at him.
But he confesses that he never could earn the butter to spread on his William S. roles, so he is willing to drop to the ordinary baker's kind, and be satisfied with a 200-mile run behind the medicine ponies. Besides Richard III, he could do twenty-seven coon songs and banjo specialties, and was willing to cook, and curry the horses. We carried a fine line of excuses for taking money.
"A first-class turn-out," he thought. "And what a lucky thing I thought of borrowing a banjo from young Gallosh! A coon song in the twilight will break the ground prettily." By this time they had stopped before the door, and an elderly man-servant, instead of waiting for the Count, came down the steps to meet him.
But I always pity the cheerful person the most." They recognised an amusing unreason in this, and laughed. Miss Swan across the room had caught the name. "Are you talking of Mrs. Evans?" Berry got his banjo down from the wall, where Miss Swan allowed him to keep it as bric-a-brac, and began to tune it. "I don't believe it agrees with this banjoseph being an object of virtue," he said.
"Anyhow they paid for their license all right, and they sold a powerful lot o' Dr. Slack's Pain Killer. Then they went on out of town. That's all I know. Well, you don't need a license from me; so go ahead, folks!" He waved good-bye to them as they went off again. Bunny and Sue were eager to ask questions about the colored boy who played the banjo for the medical show.
"You see, all black faces are pretty much the same," said he. "Their predominant expression is black, but I haven't got the fixings nor the coloured pants and things, to say nothing of a banjo, so I reckon you'll just have to be Mr. Isaacson, and you may thank the God of the Hebrews I haven't made you an old clothes man watches are respectable. Here are your letters, they are short but credible.
Three weeks after that time, they brought her out of the house feet foremost and took her to the cemetery. The news killed her dead. That's been seventy years ago, and they just now picking up on it! Slave Time Amusements "The old people say they used to have breakdowns in slave time breakdown dances with fiddle and banjo music. Far after slavery, they had them.
The girl followed her leader through the gate, the brown horse stepping gingerly, swinging his tail, and feeling his bit, while Banjo galumphed and grunted to the sound of a squeaking leather. The meet was at Folkington Green, at the foot of the Downs on the edge of the low country. Once in the road, Silver and the girl turned their backs on the sea and made through the village.
He squatted, ducked backward so suddenly that his reins slipped from Slim's fingers and lowered his head between his white front feet. His rider seemed stupid beyond any that Banjo had ever known and he had known many. Snorting and pitching, he was away before the valiant band realized what was happening in their midst. The prisoner swayed drunkenly in the saddle.
"Or were I in the wildest waste, Sae black and bare, sae black and bare, The desert were a paradise If thou wert there, if thou wert there. Or were I monarch o' the globe, Wi' thee to reign, wi' thee to reign, The brightest jewel in my crown Wad be my queen, wad be my queen." The song was ended; the banjo throbbed itself into silence. Olga's hands went up to her face.
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