"It is the negro dialect," says Joel Chandler Harris, "in its most primitive statethe 'Gullah' talk of some of the negroes on the Sea Islands being merely a confused and untranslatable mixture of English and African words.

To Murray, on the other hand, perhaps their inferior in the average arts of calculation, a vigorous native sense, tempering a genuine enthusiasm for what was excellent in literature, gave precisely that mixture of dash and steadiness which was needed to satisfy the complicated requirements of the public taste.

Not seldom a mixture of Greek and Latin in the same sentence betrays the corrupt speech of the lower classes, and the Latin itself is that of the common people.

What constitutes beauty of countenance, but red and white, and the lovely mixture thereof with each other?