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Corny glanced at me with an air that suggested that I ought to make a rise in the price, but I had dealt with these darkeys before. "That's all," I said. "All right, then, boss," said Priscilla. "I'll do it. What you want me to do?" The colored people generally gave the name "boss" to all white men, and I was pleased to see that Priscilla said boss to me much more frequently than to Rectus.
You darkeys are as fond of one as the other." "You's mistaken, Mass Louis," said Pompey quietly. "'Pon my word! And why don't you smoke, Pomp? You don't know what you're missing. It is the greatest comfort on earth." "'Specs I don't need sech poor comfort, Mass Louis. I takes my comfort wid de Lord." Pompey's voice was low and sweet. Evadne felt her heart glow.
'I guess our fire-bugs were more on business than yours, said Captain Funkal; 'they've wrecked the exhibits, and killed the darkeys with fright: except two, and they were exhibits themselves. Will you honour me by stepping into my cabin, gentlemen. I am glad to see sane white men to-night. Bude and Logan followed him through a scene of melancholy interest.
He was cleaning up his contract on the canal, and mistook the white Irish laborers there for kidnapped niggers. They set on him, and beat him and scared him together, so that he never recovered. They say he was 'converted' on his death-bed; or, as the saying is, 'he died triumphantly; but the darkeys report that the devil came straight down with a chariot and drove him off."
"Well," said I, "it's in the West Indies, and it's semi-tropical, and they have cocoa-nuts and pineapples and bananas there; and there are lots of darkeys, and the weather is always just what you want " "I guess that's a little stretched," said Corny, and Rectus agreed with her.
Sanguinetti still has his restaurant, and there is still to be found the perspiring darkeys, playing and singing their impossible music, and a crowd still congregates there, but it is not the old crowd for this, like all things else in San Francisco, has changed, and instead of the old-time assemblage of young men and women whose lack of convention came from their natural environment, there is now a crowd of young and old people who patronize it because they have heard it is "so Bohemian."
It was a table d'hote dinner served with a bottle of "Dago red," for fifty cents. You gave the waiter a tip of fifteen cents or "two bits" as you felt liberal, and he was satisfied. If you were especially pleased you gave the darkeys ten cents, not because you enjoyed the music, but just "because."
I believe his beard was what made the other darkeys hate him so, and I know if it hadn't have been for Cousin Ann's hoop skirt and wig she would have been helping the women folk around the house long before this. What they had against her was that she was always company wherever she stayed. I tell you, give me a red-headed girl for managing!" Blessings Begin to Flow
But after a certain delay it began to tell. He moaned. Then moved. Then turned upon his back. "Hunston! Hunston! oh, Hunston!" Sunday groaned. "Awake." And then the two darkeys would groan together. A responsive moan from Hunston was heard. He opened his eyes, moaned and groaned, and awoke wakeful at once. And when he awoke! His startled eyes fell upon two awful and awesome figures.
As the stranger drew rein at the stile, he was greeted by a chorus of dogs, followed instantly by the cries of a number of half-clad, grinning little darkeys who came running forward from the negro quarters in the rear. "Doan be skeered o' Ketchum, Mistah; he shan't tech you," called the largest of them, a bright-skinned mulatto, quieting the snarling dog with a kick.
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