Arizona republican., 1892-08-30
THE BOGY MAN.

the north, and put in at the port of Bos. ton.
 The cargo consisted of little else than a few families of Congo negroes destined for the new plantations of Virginia.
 New Englanders did not then feel any special abhorrence to slavery. If not regarded with positive favor it was not regarded with disfavor, and the slayer found little difficulty in disposing of his cargo of men, women and children to the good citizens of Massachusetts bay.
 Among the purchasers was Mir. Lem uel Clark, owner of large tract of land on the Merrimac river, in New Hamp- shire. Three families of negroes were bought by him and taken to his estate in the wilderness.
 Once the tenant of an English baron ial estate himself, he inclined to play the baron on his New Hampshire do- main. A great stockade was built upon the emiuence overlooking the Merrimac, and within the stockade, upon the crown of the hill, stood his large log house. Lower down, but within the stockade, were three cabins of the slave families and the more pretentious houses of the families of English laborers who accom- panied Mir. Clark to the New World. Back from the stockade and stretching to thefoot of some cliffs that formed the abutment of range of low hills was e wide expanse of level, cleared land, on which the estate raised its corn and po- tatoes.
 Beyond the few charred stumps that marked the edge of the clearing was the forest stretching away as far as the eye could reach.
 As the Merrimac was one of the high ways of marauding French and Indians, the stockade was very strongly built, and from embrasures in its walls pro jected three small brass cannon com- manding the sweep of the river in every direction. No fleet of canoes could safely pass the stockade by day. The importance of the place was so we'll rec ognized that Mir. Clark held a colonial commission as major and the stockade was officially styled Fort Clark
 The children of the fort made no dis tinction between white and black. The little Clarks, Sanborns, Tennys and Marsdens played with the little Qua shoes, Cushees and Gambas upon terms of perfect equality.
 The children of both races whisked from house to house. About the hearths of the negroes the little Englishmen listened with fascinated horror to wild tales of devils and evil spirits, great serpents, huge river monsters and the gigantic manlike apes of the mysterious continent of Africa; of bloody tribal wars and human sacrifices to the heather gods. The little black boys learned of the gay elves and gnomes, of dainty sprites and fays of merry England, of the good cheer of Christmas and the sports of May Day. The rival story tell CTS strove to outdo each other in the marvellous tales; but nothing so pleased the children of both races as Sam Qua shees stories of the Mumbo Jumbo, for in his native village Sam himself had been Mumbo Jumbo.
 The big Congo negro enjoyed telling how when a crime had been committed by some person unknown, Mum DO Jumbo was called upon to detect the guilty one, and how, mounted upon stilts, with a long grass cloak completely enshroud- ing him, great false head fastened above his own head and a pair of wooden arms sticking out below it, he stalked about the village like a giant terrifying the guilty one until he con- fessed his crime.
 The children delighted to hear of the Mumbo Jumbo marching up and down the paths of the African village, crowds of people dancing about him, beating on tomtoms and singing wild chants. And when Cushee and Gamba gave the bat tie yell of the cannibal tribe-for those were cannibal families-the satisfaction was complete.
 Of the tales of the English merry making, none pleased the little Africans so much as Philip Sanborn's descrip- tions of the May Day sports. The jollity of Christmas they knew, for Lemuel Clark was not Puritan and kept the Christmas holidays, but they wished to dance about a May pole crowned with flowers. One Christmas night, as all the people of the fort were gathered in the big common room of the "great house." MT. Clark promised that the ap- preaching May Day should be celebrated in English style. Philip Sanborn was told to take the matter in hand and make any preparations he wished. Philip Sanborn was pleased, but seeing a cloud upon the face of his rival story teller, Sam Quashee, he asked if the negro families might not have the after noon of May Day for showing their na- tive games and sports.
 The request was readily granted, and on the next day Sam Quashee dragged to his cabin two well seasoned pine logs that had been left after building the stockade, and for weeks thereafter em- ployed every evening in carving from the logs mysterious objects which eyen ms own children were not allowed to sec
 The winter of 1722 melted into an early spring in New Hampshire. The rivers were free from ice in April, and the first canoes that came up the Merri- mac brought the news that war was de- clared with France. The weapons and defenscs were d,dy looked to, but no precautions were taken, for it was a long uonth's journey through the wilderness to Canada: besides it was not likely the enemy would move at once.
 May Day came at last and tall May pole decorated with wreaths of flowers