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Updated: June 9, 2025
Rachel asked him who had broken it. She no like de way it talkin'. She say: 'W'at mek you say, night und day, night und day? Un' she tuk her bill un' bruk it up. Un' Georgina chop' up de pianneh, 'caze it wouldn' talk foo her like it talk too buckra. Da shame!" But now came yells and cheers in the street, the rush and trample of hundreds, and the cry: "De gub'nor! de gub'nor a-comin'!"
"Well," continued he, as he threw down the boot and brush, and, placing his hands in his pockets, strutted across the floor with an air of independence "Gorra Mighty, dem is de parts for Pompey; and I hope when you get dare you will stay, and nebber follow dat buckra back to dis hot quarter no more, let him be eber so good."
On the contrary, they raised a cheer when we turned to leave the scene of action, accompanying us into the town, and dancing round us in their amusing way, and making quite a triumphal procession of our progress up Roebuck Street. "Golly, Sambo!" one of them shouted out to another of their number, who evidently was the local poet of the party. "You makee singsong ob de lilly buckra sailor!"
O, ho! O, ho! But we'll all hang togedder, O, hang, boys, hang!" My presence apparently checked the performance of another verse, beginning, "De buckra 'list for money," apparently in reference to the controversy about the pay-question, then just beginning, and to the more mercenary aims they attributed to the white soldiers.
"There is the story in other words. Listen again." To clapping of hands in unison, the following words were sung: "New-come buckra, He get sick, He tak fever, He be die; He be die. New-come buckra " "Well, it may be a chant of the plague, but it's lacking in poetry," she remarked. "Doesn't it seem so to you?" "No, I certainly shouldn't go so far as that.
"Damn dat little buckra!" they said, "he cunning more dan dem toder. With which Parthian arrows of rhetoric the mountaineers retreated. But this did not last long. The Maroons soon learned to keep out of the way of the shells, and the island relapsed into terror again. It was deliberately resolved at last, by a special council convoked for the purpose, "to persuade the rebels to make peace."
A flood came down soon after and washed away many houses, filled the place with sand, and overflowed the ponds: and I do think that this was for their wickedness; for the Buckra men there were very wicked. I saw and heard much that was very very bad at that place. I was several years the slave of Mr. D after I returned to my native place. Here I worked in the grounds.
There they prepared cartridges and pikes, and had primitive banquets, which assumed a melodramatic character under the inspiriting guidance of Jack. If a fowl was privately roasted, that mystic individual muttered incantations over it, and then they all grasped at it, exclaiming, "Thus we pull Buckra to pieces!"
Thereupon, the poet, who was clearly a man of vivid imagination and spontaneous genius, at once struck up a doggerel rhyme; all of them taking up the chorus as they marched along on either side of us: "Man ob war buckra, man ob war buckra, Jus' come ashore, jus' come ashore, Jus' come ashore! "'Badian gen'leman, 'Badian gen'leman, He make um roar, he make um roar, He make um roar!
Whatever mollifying effect the sight of the silver coin might have produced on the mulatto's mind was entirely swamped by Mick's unfortunate quotation from his paternal archives. "Say, you sailor buckra, who dat you call one black dog, hi!" said he, coming up to my chum in a threatening manner, brandishing his arms and working his head about like a teetotum in a fit.
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