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It is very seldom, said he, that I meet a negro who does not speak to me politely; but this class of whites either pass along without looking up, or cast a half-vacant, rude stare into one's face, without opening their mouths. Yet this people, he added, veriest raggamuffins that they are, despise the negroes, and consider it quite degrading to put themselves on term of equity with them.
But this expostulation served only to irritate the raggamuffins; and one of them taking hold of my arm tried to force me into compliance with his orders. This was our trying moment; we all three made one desperate effort 'for liberty; and, each of us having dealt his opponent a severe blow on the cheek, we broke from them, and ran off at our best speed.
Do ye know me, ye Raggamuffins? Sham. Yes, but we knew not that you were a Coward before. You talkt big, and huft where-e'er you came, like an errant Bully; and so long we reverenc'd you but now we find you have need of our Courage, we'll stand on our own Reputations. Sir Tim. Courage and Reputation! ha, ha, ha why, you lousy Tatterdemallions dare ye talk of Courage and Reputation? Sharp.
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