I asked the little darkey I saw at the front of the house if she lived here, and she told me she had only just come.

But there was nothing incongruous about Sandy to this company, except perhaps to Tom Delamere, who possessed a keen eye for contrasts and always regarded Sandy, in that particular rig, as a very comical darkey.

" or: "Ole Massa take dat new brown coat, And hang it on de wall; Dat darkey take dat same old coat, And wear it to de ball, Oh, don't you hear my tru lub sing?" It was in their religious song, however that they poured out their souls.

Meanwhile the aged darkey had entered the camp.

The sound grew more and more distinct with each peal, when, suddenly as the apparition of Norman's Woe, right before me sprang up the black dripping hull of a fishing-schooner, becalmed, and rocking with the roll of the sea; one turn and I shot beneath her bows, passed her, and was lost in the fog before the fat darkey who was lazily fishing by the bowsprit could shift from one side of the deck to the other to keep me in sight.

Dey call me James Cornelius an' all de white folks says I'se a good 'spectable darkey.

" Gabe was the most delighted darkey in all Virginia for the next hour.