1900.
COPYRIGHT, 1900
BY
EDMUND K. GOLDSBOROUGH, M. D.
ILLUSTRATIONS
| Ole Mars, | [Frontispiece] |
| Page | |
|---|---|
| Miss Sanson in the saddle, | [8] |
| Ef’n you don’ git of’n dat cow I’ll whup you tell dere ain’ no bref lef’ in you, | [14] |
| Tench Tilghman, | [18] |
| Anne Francis, | [20] |
| Miss Henrietta’s gift that hung over the pulpit, | [28] |
| Tench Francis, | [32] |
| Mars Pinckney when a boy, | [48] |
| Pawson Demby baptizing Tilly Mink just after cutting ice, | [50] |
| Mars Pinckney’s home, “Fausley,” | [62] |
| The picture on the face of the Moses clock, | [78] |
| Mars Torm fishing in Black Creek, | [90] |
| Rob Roy and Rose, | [94] |
| Yo’ gwine ter merry uh King an’ hab thutteen chillun, | [106] |
| Dem two gals, Marfy an’ Muhtilda, out da in de watah sorf crabbin’, is meh gran’chillun, | [112] |
| Deah gre’t gran’mammy gibs ’em too much cawn-bred, an’ hit natchelly puts noshuns in deah haids, | [114] |
| Ole Mars had de gre’tes’ confluence in meh ’rasity, | [118] |
| Scipio Jonas Jones and Nimrod, | [120] |
| So I bine meh haid up’n uh hankcheah an’ wen’ ter see Ole Mars’ boutin Saul, | [128] |
| Black Creek Falls, | [136] |
| Ole Mistis at sweet sixteen, | [140] |
| Ole Miss (Miss Henrietta), | [152] |
| Black Creek Ford, | [170] |
| Skylark, | [172] |
| Mars Matthew, | [174] |
| Ezra, | [176] |
| Miss Mary, | [182] |
| Mars Arthur, | [184] |
| Miss Sanson, | [190] |
| Mars Torm, | [194] |
| Ezra and the children, | [196] |
| Mammy, | [212] |
INTRODUCTION
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.”