"Male or female?" was the first, beginning at Dora.
"Male," answered Dora.
"Black or white?" asked Lily.
"Neither," said Belle, who was next in turn, "least he's not black at all; but he's some white."
Lily looked rather puzzled at this.
"And what color besides is he?"
"Brown," answered Bessie.
"A brown and white man," said Lily. "Oh! I know. It's old black Peter."
"No, no, no," echoed around the circle.
"Not one scrap of Peter is white," said Mamie Stone. "He's the blackest old man I ever saw."