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Updated: May 29, 2025
But just then something else occurred to attract their attention. A donkey, long-eared, long-haired, dirty and unkempt trotted into the ring and spun about like a top for a full minute. On the ludicrous-looking beast's back sat a boy in the makeup of a blackface clown. In his mouth was a harmonica, that he played lustily, as he sat facing to the rear with his back toward the donkey's head.
Jerry was laughing immoderately, though I admit such blackface pleasantry appealed little to my sense of humor. But I found myself smiling. "Surely you don't expect to avert this catastrophe by providing Jerry with a new cravat?" I urged. "That is precisely what I do expect," he said. "You've had your fling at him, Pope. I'm going to have mine.
"Aren't you ashamed of yourself, behaving in this way?" "No, I ain't," protested George incorrigibly. "Ya-ya-ya, blackface!" So it went for the space of a good half-hour. Pretty poor stuff, it may seem now, oh, you grown-ups who have lost the magic eyes of childhood, but snickers and shouts and giggles filled the hall while the dialogue lasted.
The stock sold from the hills are for the most part Cheviots and Blackfaces; from the low grounds half-breds, being a cross between Leicester and Cheviot and crosses between the Cheviot and Blackface. All the sales of sheep and lambs are by the "clad score" which contains twenty-one. The odd one is thrown in to meet the contingency of deaths before delivery is effected.
Ironically, the first professional entertainers to perform in minstrel shows were whites who were imitating plantation slave productions. In the beginning, whites performed in blackface, and, only later, did Negroes themselves perform commercially. The spirituals were a religious manifestation of the Afro-American heritage.
I told him to go away, and he said, 'Before long you'll have to go away and every Blackface in the country. We'll be masters in another month. He was alluding to Mr. Gladstone's gagging motion, which the poor folks here in their ignorance believe to mean that Home Rule will set in about the beginning of August.
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