he asked, in great agitation: "must I take the oath of Loyalty; or am I required by Yankee philanthropy to marry a negress?" At the sound of his voice, Mr. BUMSTEAD left the shoulder of Mr. SIMPSON, upon which he had been leaning with great weight, and, coming forward in three long skips, deliberately wound his right hand in the speaker's neck-tie.

" Zöller adds that in all his African experiences he never found a negress of whom he should have been willing to assume that she would sacrifice herself for a man she was attached to.

He reached the old negress just as another knife of pain set her writhing and sweating.

He saw a negress, a Sudanese duenna, crouching in a corner and staring at him with white eyes.

His butler was a Javanese, his chef a Quan-tung Chinese, his valet a Japanese, his chambermaid a Martinique negress, and his chauffeur an American expert.

" "But I tell you I ain't tech yo' globe!" cried the negress, with the anger of an illiterate person who feels, but cannot understand, the satire leveled at her.

The cause was soon after explained, for, the negress, before mentioned, coming into the room on some trifling errand, to my surprise accosted him rather freely.

We followed the negress to a marble-paved court where pigeons fluttered and strutted about the central fountain.

"Fourfivesixseveneight" "Palmyre!" gasped the negress, and grovelled on the ground.

At eight or nine the little girls are married, at twelve the son of the house is "given his first negress"; and thereafter, in the rich and leisured class, both sexes live till old age in an atmosphere of sensuality without seduction.

"Umph," she responded (and no one who has never heard a fat old negress say "Umph" knows the eloquence of it).

He seated us on divans and lowered his voluminous person to a heap of cushions on the step leading into the court, and the son who had studied in Algeria instructed a negress to prepare the tea.

"II don't mean exactly aa negress," stammered the old gentleman; "I mean she's not aa good girl, Peter; she's aa thief, in factshe's a thiefa thief, Peter.

Walking one morning along the waterfront, I met two very dark negresses.

While tea was being served I noticed a tiny negress, not more than six or seven years old, who stood motionless in the embrasure of an archway.

" Beverly summoned an old negress to the room, and consigned his sister to her care.

Such persons, perhaps, as those two poor negressesto remind you of a story which was famous in our fathers' timethose two poor negresses, I say, who found the African traveller, Mungo Park, dying of fever and starvation, and saved his life, simply from human loveas they sung to themselves by his bedside "Let us pity the poor white man; He has no mother to make his bed, No wife to grind his corn.

Presently the master of the launch came by, and touched the old negress, not ungently, with the end of a spike-pole.

Across the market place and toward the steps of the court-house there suddenly came trundling along in breathless haste a huge old negress, carrying on one arm a large shallow basket containing apple-crab lanterns and fresh gingerbread.

Redah, addressing her negress, said to her: "See now what casts that shadow.

I heard a great deal of conversation in the dressing-room adjoining mine, while performing my own toilet, and presently Mr. opened my room-door, ushering in a dirty fat good-humoured looking old negress, saying, 'The midwife, Rose, wants to make your acquaintance.'

The neighbor woman took swift control, and waved out Peter and old Mr. Renfrew, while she and the doctor aided the huge negress.

But Alida and her companion arose, like those who had more confidence in their visiter, and, arousing the negress from her sleep, they descended the ladder and entered the cabin.

Now he cleared his throat in a certain way that brought the old negress to attention, so well they knew each other.