The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-08-08
Copyright. 1913. by w. Werner.)
Dry days am de men folks daytime!
Wet days am de chillun's playtime.
Come down, rain! Keep on a.fallin'!

SoiHe uoWH, rain: Keep on d-Idllln !.
The stubby little negro flung out
her fiat feet in accompaniment to her
song. in such good will that dust flew
from the floor inc the slim, golden
haired child Of ten, sitting at the end
of the porch, laughed until the tears
ran down her two white cheeks.
A fat, black face surmounted by a
red head rag" stuck itself outside
chillun's wuck days. too" its wide
years out da, niggah, and shuck EN-
fun dinnuh. foah I mash yoah hade!"
The impudent twirl of Mandy's
thumb to her fiat nose, behind her
mothers broad back, brought a fresh
burst Of laughter from little Aleen.
"oh, you Mandy!" she cried, you
dear. funny Mandy!"
self on the floor and lifted the white
shod feet and set them on her woody
head. Il likes to hear YOU laugh,
sweetness" she declared, I'd die jest
to keep you a-smilin'!!"
The white child's mobile face
changed, her lips tremhled. Il love
you. Mandy" she whispered: II don't
want you ever to leave met
Mandy raised herself. "Da hain't
hotIIi vi licSh HE uO udt, SIZE uGs
clared solemnly-'no chilluns, ner
womens. ner mems. ner fire. ner water.
ner yearth. ner air! Is gwine stay
wild you and wait on you ontel de
jedgent day, and den ahftuh. eff dey
let's us stay in the same part Of
heahen!"
There was a derisive laugh from the
steps and a boy OF fourteen. with a
1oguish dimple in his left cheek.
n0nncnd V1nnn xhA @oo,on~k ~f <Lo
chair.
Aliens a white girl, but she loves
a pickaninny-an ugly, black picka-
ninny!' he jeered.
Il think you had better go hack
north. where o belong, Lew Hay
den," the child flashed. "Mandy's
blood is just as red as yours, if her
skin is a different color, and nothin'
you could do or say would keep US
mad at each other, so there!"
The boy ran into the house, where
his mother who was visiting her
southern friend, sat with her hostess.
Wait and see!!" he called back.
Wait and see!'
When Mandy was twenty and cooks
assistant in the Roe h%ouhehold, DAN
iel Cumby. black and slim. gentle Of
genius with the horses, came to take
charge of the Roe stables. Mandy
the object of Daniels ador-
alton and threw her whole soul into
loving him in return.
When the daughter of the house
married, on her twenty-frst
birthday, to Llewellyn Hayden,
Mandy married Daniel.
Hun. hain't hit somepin' to be
proud O. fun me and you to be goin'
nawth wild my darlin' Miss Allie as
huh cook and heritage driver!" Man
dy murmured in Daniels a thai
evening as the train whirled them
northward.
rs a goin' cause l has to, to git to
be wild YOU" Daniel answered her;
faint cause I wants to. De white
uns in de nawth doan' know me and
Is afeerd dey won't make no allow
ances fun me like dey does down
heah. Somepin' bad's kwine happen
US. Mandy. Me and you ought TO a
stayed wha' folks makes allowances
fun niggah ways"
Mandy's lip quivered. You wouldn't
would you. DanI? We hain't nuvvah
live fun onder de same roof. and I
you"
Hits mighty hard dat my wife
loves a white woman over me-"
Daniel murmured. wistfully.
'Tain't so. faint SOL" Mandy
sobbed. II loves YOU better'n any
body in de world. Dan'l. and 1 loves