Ole Mars an' Ole Miss

Transcriber’s Note:
The cover image was created by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain.
Meh Marster, you mo’ an’ mo’ like Mars Francis ev’y day, same bright eyes, like uh fish hawk’s, but sorf an’ big.
Edmund K. Goldsborough, M. D.
Washington, D. C.:
NATIONAL PUBLISHING CO.,
1900.
COPYRIGHT, 1900
EDMUND K. GOLDSBOROUGH, M. D.
My subjects are all typical Eastern-Shore-of-Maryland darkies, some of whom “had erligion, ’longed ter de Babtis’ chuch an’ wuz monstus pious.” Others danced, sang, played the banjo, fiddled, fished and frolicked in Talbot County “Befo’ de Wah.”
“ Ole Joe kickin’ up behin’ an’ befo’,
Yaller gal kirkin’ up behin’ ole Joe. ”