prescrumptious

Updated: May 7, 2025

Then Mr. Sambo Ebony slouched on to the scene. "Hullo, Tar!" was the ex-foreman's careless greeting. "Now, doan' get too prescrumptious wid me," warned the black man, with an evil grin that displayed his big, white teeth. "Yo' an' me hab done been good frien's, an' pulled togedder. But Ah want yo' to undahstan', Mr. White Man, dat I doan' allow yo' to call me Tar Baby."

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