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"I'm going forward," I told her, "and will tell my darkies to bolt the front door: so you'll be as safe in here as in Chicago." In another minute I was on my front platform. Dropping down between the two cars, I crept along beside indeed, half under Mr. Cullen's special.
By rail to Philadelphia, ninety-two miles, through a flat, snow-covered country, which, under the circumstances, looked as dismal as might be. The latter part of our journey lay along the left bank of the Delaware, which we crossed by a long wooden bridge, and arrived at the Continental Hotel just at dusk. It is evident we are moving South. The waiters at this hotel are all darkies.
As he fell, the smaller darkies would pounce upon him, and in an instant despoil him of his blanket and perhaps the larger portion of his warm clothing. The operation was repeated with a dozen or more. The whole camp enjoyed it as rare fun, and it was the only time that I saw nearly every body at Florence laugh.
These were on the order of concerts; and many darkies although they had no scientific training, became rather accomplished musicians in this respect. Melodious music might be heard at these old fashion contests, as most darkies, who acquired knowledge in the playing of these instruments were familiar with nearly all the melodies and folks songs that were common to the period.
It isn't dignified. It isn't respectful. It's a disgrace to Miss Peggy. Do you hear?" "Yas yas sir. We we hears," answered the little darkies in chorus, the whites of their eyes rolling and their knees fairly smiting together. How could they have been guilty of thus slighting their adored young mistress? "Please, sah, wha's his name ef taint Jule?" Augustus plucked up heart of grace to ask.
The darkies must have bleached out amazingly here in America, for you'd have to hunt with a long pole and a telescope to boot to find a straight-out black one anywhere round, leastwise that's my observation." "That was slavery." "Yes 'twas, and then the damned rascals talk about the amalgamationists, and all that, up North.
Dey doan know w'at 's good! Terbacker is lack religion, de good Lawd made it fer people, en dey ain' no yuther creetur w'at kin 'preciate it. De darkies notice' dat de fus' thing de new mule done, w'en he was turnt inter de pastur', wuz ter make fer de terbacker-patch.
Before he was thirteen he was picking up a living teasing ragtime out of a battered violin in little cafes round Nashville. Eight years later the ragtime craze hit the country, and he took six darkies on the Orpheum circuit.
"Not for yourselves, I mean." "Don't have to," returned Frane, Junior. "The darkies do it all for us. But Phil and Alice and I have to do our own studying." Russ saw that he was in fun, but he was curious enough to ask the smaller boy: "Do you and the girls go to school?" "School comes to us. There is a teacher comes here. Lives at the house. But it's vacation time now till after New Year's.
Really, when she stands at the end of the veranda, giving orders to those darkies, her face a little flushed, she’s positively a queen.” “As far as queenliness may be compatible with the angelic state,” replied Hosmer, but not ill pleased with Melicent’s exaggerated praise of Thérèse.
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