The advocate., 1894-02-14


spectacle pusSons when she seed 'em.
1'She must be lady, that's sO;"
said Clarence with a sneer, ''tO have
been so very familiar with an ignorant
black servant.
"Look hear, sab! You slim-legged
white fool, who's you talkin' to? Don
you gimme no mo- o. your sass about
Miss Kate, sab, or I'm liable to spile
dem dandy close you got on" said
Slick with vehement but dignited
anger. -.
@What champion Miss COtterell
has!' said Clarence still sneeringly. 1t
is worthy of old chivalry days. The
young lady has reason to feel quite
vain"
81 don know what you all mean by
your shiveree days, but if yOu's sayin'
anything diS'spectful O. Miss Kate,
you done talkin' bout you bettahs, sab.
She wouldn't wipe her purity feet on de
likes o. you-you scrawny little Tom
Thumb, your said the excited Afro
American.
'See here, Slick! l won't allow you
to talk so to a gentleman who is my
AuGSbs OUUp 1U9 bIllO VI Il Du0ll
discharge you," said the Doctor.
CDR. Darlington, you sprise me! Am
dis heah gOod-fO' -nOthin' little spindle
legged thing yo' guest? rs sorry for a
spectacle family, sab. But / amt
gOin' to take no mo- sass Off'n anything
dat looks like dat. I'll bounce him if he
opens his fool white mOuf bout Miss
Kate agin; an you'll jes' have to charge,
dat's all. l amt goin' to low no gal
vanized dWa'f to come round heah
with no ms silence to Slick Blackburn,
an don't you forgit it-you daddy slim
legs, yOup'-turning to Clarence and
beginning to disrobe preparatory to a
threatened exhibition of muscle.
Clarence was frightened, and seeing
policeman block away mOtiOned him
to hasten to the scene.
"You'S done called fO' p'liCeman,
has you-you burned coward ?" sneered
Slick. "Well, den, he don't come fO'
muffin. Take dat-you soft head! OATS
fO' Slick Blackburn. Take dat TO- Miss
Katep' and the two boxes, one on either
ear, set Clarence spinning and bowling
in the most undignifed manner. "Dar'S
another fO' 'Sultin de DOCtah by bein'
his gues';;" and the blow blacked Clar-
ence's eye and knocked him down. Slick
sprang upon him with
"NOw rs gwine to give you good
lickin' on behalf of de c'munity;" and
was pounding away when the dilatory
policeman arrived and pulled the irate
Afro American off.
DR.. Darlington, who had never before
known Slick to be angry or dlsobedl-
ent, was paralyzed with establishment.
Sticks proceedings had been so exceed
ing expeditions that even had the Doc
tor not been daZed and had he been
willing to incur the risk of interfering,
interference would have been impoSSi-
BILE. Clarence was carried into the
house by some of the men who had
come running to see height. He was
not seriously hurt but he was terrified
almost to the point of insanity, and he
was badly disfgured. Slick had, in
actual fact, spilled the young mans
dandy clos"
The cOachman was really an import
ant person in the politics of the city on
account of his influence over the voters
of his own color; so it was not difficult
for him to give satisfactory bail and
avoid what he would have regarded as
an everlasting disgrace-imprisonment
in the city jail; and as it was only rea-
sonable that the presence of Clarence
as prosecuting witness should be re-
quired, Sticks case was indefinitely
postponed, to be taken up when his
victim should be ready, if ever, to ap-
pear in police court and testify to hay
ing been thrashed, and to be cross-ex-
amined as to what he had been thrashed
for. The shrewd Afro-American sur
missed correctly that this would never
take place, and that he might rest in