Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1857-12-17
Amusing R&aomg,
A HAPPY BURLESQUE.


If Matt Peel, of the counterfeit darkey
fraternity, had been upon the leyee yester
day, he might have got happy wrinkle in
his line from the performance of the genu-
inc colorsd gentry. The carte for this en-
tertainment was burlesque auction sale
One of the darkey men, selected for his
tonguey qualities, mounted box, and in
good set auctioneer phrase announced to a
large assmblage of idle negro laborers that
he was now about to offer them, for cash "to
de highest bidder in dis crowd, fus rate
boy,A No. l, ,soun and healty warranted not to
cut in de eye, balk in de step, nor steal
chickens dat don't long to him also 'dition-
al, dis boy wars only par shoes year, an
dey's good at the eend of it, takes keer on
his close partickler, an neber goes cortin' !;
don't 90 to sleep ober his work, is 'spectful
an 'bedient; is six foot tire inches high,
weighs two hundred and twenty poun, an
can do more work in house or fe' dan
any order two niggers; sides he eat less dan
order one niger. Step up hyar, Sam, an
show yourselfto desc gemman Libely now
Dere he is, gemmen! 'Mire him for your
selves"
And the sable auctioneer pointed with
triumphant gestures to the subject of his ex-
travagant eulogium-a scrubby, knotted,
runted, gray headed specimen of field hand,
about four feet and half high, who mount
ed the box beside him, amid vast roars of
laughter from the crowd
"Dar he is, gemmen. canine him an
start him at sufin, for he mus be sole -
What does you say?" Several colored gem.
men mounted the stand and proceeded to
"zamine" him. One violently pulled his
mouth open, and reported-"dis niger not
sound-one jaw toof done gone" Another
tried to straighten out lock of his wool,
with-"don't like dis-h'ar kink too much
-nigger lazy!' Another pretended to dis
cover something besides ideas running
through his wool, and concluded "nigger'S
head too poplar" (populous.) Another said,
"nigger's foot too long an slim-long foot
nigger will steal and run way; long foot
niger aim. WORT Jail fees" Another
"nigger's toe-nails too long-scratch paint
Off my parler floor. No wants dis niger
Yah! Hy ah! Yah! Yah!
"Well, gemmen is you done looking at
dat nigger? Is you satisfy? He's prime
lott What do you say for the boy? Start
him at sufhu. He's got to be sole-prump-
tory sale!"
"Ten cent? came from the laughing
crowd. "Ten cent ten cent! Going at
ten cent-ten-ten-ten."
"Oue dime," from the crowd. "Tank
Se~sar One dime, one dime-g-o-i.n' at
one dlme<d.i-m-e? Too bad, gemmen,
make me sacfze~dis article dat way! Say
'leben?"
"One bit," from the>e<oxd. aMucb
'bliged sar one bit-one bit$slebit-
bit-goin'-goin' in'-won't nobody say ,>a
en- for dis A, No. I, warranted" &C., "boy
goin' at one bit-goin' g-o-i-n' gone at ter
cent? Yours, sar, an a dog sight more dar
he's WORTH" And he "knocked down
the property to the quasi purchaser with &
tremendous blow on the head with barre
stave he used asa hammer, which broke il
in the middle, and. "knocked down" the solo
party off the box without his apparently feel
ing the blow, so massive was the conforma
ton of his cranium. That was the great
est auction sale that ever We saw.-Trut
Delta. :.