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POINDEXTER, COLORED SUNDRY ACCOUNTS FROM PLACE TO PLACE THOSE TIMES AND THESE LOCAL COLOR OLD JUDGE PRIEST BACK HOME THE ESCAPE OF MR. TRIMM Wit and Hurnor ONE THIRD OFF A PLEA MR OLD CAP COLLIER THE ABANDONED FARMERS THE LIFE OF THE PARTY EATING IN TWO OR THREE LANGUAGES OH, WELL, YOU KNOW HOW UOMEN ARE FIBBLE D.D. SPEAKING OF OPERATIONS EUROPE REVISED ROUGHING IT DE LUXE COBBS BILL OF FARE COBBS ANATOMY Miscellany THE THUNDERS OF SILENCE THE GLORY OF THE COMING PATHS OF GLORY SPEAKING OF PRUSSIAN CONTENTS Down Yonder North Bound Manhattan Isle HarZem Heights Local Colored Gold Coast Country Side Dark Secrets Movie Land Black Belt Afric Shores Business Deals Private Life Oiled Skids Yet to Zym Lady Like Sable Plots White Hopes Pistol Plays Piebald Joys Headed Home Last Words CHAPTER I Down Yonaer M Y name is J. Poindexter. But the full name is Jefferson Exodus Poindexter, Colored. But most always in general I has been known as Jeff, for short. The Jefferson part is for a white family which my folks worked for them one time before I was born, and the Exodus is because my mammy craved I should be named after somebody out of the Bible. How I comes to write this is this way It seems like my experiences here in New York is liable to be such that one of my white gentleman friends he says to me I should take pen in hand and write them out just the way they happen and at the time they is happening, or right soon afterwards, whilst the memory of them is clear in my brain and then hell see if he cant get them printed somewheres, which on top of the other things which I now is, will make 11 me an author with money coming in steady. He says to me he will fix up the spelling wherever needed and attend to the punctu ating but all the rest of it will be my own just like I puts it down. I reads and writes very well but someway I never learned to puncture. So the places where it is neces sary to be punctual in order to make good sense and keep everything regulation and make the talk sound natural is his doings and also some of the spelling. But every thing else is mine and I asks credit. My coming to New York, in the first place, is sort of a sudden thing which starts here about a month before the ptesent time. I has been working for Judge Priest for going on sixteen years and is expecting to go on working for him as long as we can get along together all right, which it seems like from appearances that ought to be always. But after he gives up being circuit judge on account of him getting along so in age he gets sort of fretful by reasons of him not having much to do any more and most of his own friends having died off on him. When the state begins going Republican Down Yonder 13 about once in so often, he says to me, kind of half joking, hes a great mind to pull up stakes and move off and go live somewheres else. But pretty soon after that the whole country goes dry and then he says to me there just naturally aint no fitten place left for him to go to without he leaves the United States. The old boss man he broods a right smart over this going dry business. Being a judge and all, hes always been a great hand for upholding the law. But this here is one law which he cannot uphold and yet go on taking of his sweetening drams steady the same as hes been used to doing all his life. ...
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